Robertson Davies Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

• The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

  Robertson Davies

  Humor, Light, People

• The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

  Robertson Davies

  Christian, Reading, Color

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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