It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion – it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Opinion Quotes
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind’s leading of the blind.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
Honesty, sincerity, and openness I esteem essential marks of a good mind. I am, therefore, of opinion that men ought, (after they have examined with unbiased judgments every system of religion, and chosen one system, on their own authority, for themselves), to avow their opinions and defend them with boldness.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
We must love them both – those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.
The most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of the appropriate facts.
You think, because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times… that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far otherwise; it is known that you have no opinion: You are measured by your silence and found wanting. You have no oracle to utter, […]
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
