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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as read more
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside read more
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just read more
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're read more
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
