There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

—Virginia Woolf

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Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

—Virginia Woolf

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

—Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

—Virginia Woolf

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

—Virginia Woolf

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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion—the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes.

—Virginia Woolf

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More quotations tagged with “opinions”

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

—Thomas H. Huxley

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

—Senator Patrick Leahy

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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