"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
― Walter Bagehot
Topic(s):
Nature
More From Walter Bagehot
- "So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable."
- "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
- "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
More In Nature
- "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."― Erich Fromm
- "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."― Denis Diderot
- "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."― Marcus Tullius Cicero