Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.