Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

William Golding Quotes: I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
         

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.


William Golding
Check all other quotes by William Golding

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"William Golding Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 17 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/I-am-astonished-at-the-ease-with-1156364>.





Check out


Other quotes of William Golding


I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.



We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.



I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.



We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.



The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.



I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.



I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.



My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.



At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.






Other quotes you may like


Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.

Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.



Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.



If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say

If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say



Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.

Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.



as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.



In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.



True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.



We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.



Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.



The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.

The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.". Author of this quote is William Golding. This quote is about passionate, judgment, persons, uninformed, opinion, ease,.