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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.