Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Inspirational, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse”, p.200

• A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  People, Atheism, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1970). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Watchman, edited by L. Patton”

• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Children, Philosophy

• Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Courage, Opportunity, Prudent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.476

• Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Law, Principles, May

• It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Years, Mind

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