Aldous Huxley Quotes

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It’s a real time saver because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.