Generation Quote by Pierre Bayle

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true…

— Philip Arthur Fisher

“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.”

— David Grant Urban

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

— John Stuart Mill

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

— Len Smith

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected…

— John Stuart Mill

An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion;…

— Bertrand Russell

“Anyone who reads history at all knows that the passionate and powerful convictions of one century usually seem absurd, extraordinary, to the next. There…

— Doris Lessing

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

— Benjamin Cardozo