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Bertrand Russell
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
John Locke
“Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for...” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
William Shakespeare
“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.” William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Jane Austen
“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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