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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot
Art, Pain, Philosophy
'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot
Pain, People, Political
Walter Bagehot, Ruth Dudley Edwards (1993). “The best of Bagehot”

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

Walter Bagehot
Pain, Hate, Men

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