Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or fr… - Mark Twain

" "
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.

Mark Twain

English

Collect this quote

About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Originators like Mark Twain:

Eternal Rest sounds comforting in the pulpit. . . . Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example.