Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

—Walter Pater

About Walter Pater

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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art...

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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

—Walter Pater

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

—Virginia Woolf

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.

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