Quote#Truth
Let us confess a truth, humiliating perhaps to human pride;—a very…
Quote byAnna Laetitia Barbauld · 1743–1825
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1825), "On Prejudice", Vol. II, pp. 326–327..
English (original)
Let us confess a truth, humiliating perhaps to human pride;—a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association—in short, by prejudice.
— Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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