Jonathan Swift Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

• Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Communication, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

  Jonathan Swift

  Differences, Mind, World

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.285

• Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mean, Men, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

• If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Learning, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

• That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Criticism, Opinion, Passages

  Satires and Personal Writings Thoughts on Various Subjects

• I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taught Us, Opinion, Remember

  Jonathan Swift (2005). “Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.233, Prestwick House Inc

• This is every cook's opinion -
  no savory dish without an onion,
  but lest your kissing should be spoiled
  your onions must be fully boiled.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Kissing, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, “Market Women’s Cries”

• Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Opinion, Ill

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

• Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

  Jonathan Swift

  Opinion, Quotations

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.316

• Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Differences, Long

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.395, BookCaps Study Guides

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