It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Haven’t you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind — isn’t anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
Is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? Most undoubtedly.
First, I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Now, in my opinion, the procession of the native inhabitants was fine.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.
In a practical syllogism, the major premise is an opinion, while the minor premise deals with particular things, which are the province of perception. Now when the two premises are combined, just as in theoretic reasoning the mind is compelled to affirm the resulting conclusion, so in the case of practical premises you are forced at once to do it.
SOCRATES: They have differences of opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust, honourable and dishonourable: there would have been no quarrels among them, if there had been no such differences – would there now?
