Choices Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be…

— Richard Baxter

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…

— Baruch Spinoza

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

— Barnes Wallis

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is…

— Thomas Carlyle

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by…

— Anonymous

One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude…

— Gustave Le Bon

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

— Blaise Pascal