False Opinions Quotes

#1. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Jonathan Swift

#2. Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.

Rene Descartes

#3. You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them

Pat Robertson

#4. Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Nicolas Malebranche

#5. I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Muriel Spark

#7. I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

John Stuart Mill

#8. False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph De Maistre

#9. Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

David Crystal

#10. On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

John Stuart Mill

#11. None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Paul McCartney

#12. I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my opinions. My religion would not be in ruins if this opinion were shown to be false.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Joseph De Maistre

#14. Let us not be false witnesses for Christ, changing the doctrine of God to suit our own opinions.

Adam Houge

#15. Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche

Jonathan Harnisch

#16. In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

George Lois

#17. There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color.

Daniel Marques

#18. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

Jacob Grimm

#20. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Susan Blackmore

#21. One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.

Ramakrishna

#22. True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

Walter Lippmann

#23. The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.

John Stuart Mill