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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.