Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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