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
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.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
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.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
When did ignorance become a point of view? (“Dilbert”)
Use your own best judgment at all times.
Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity. If the human mind be left to follow its own bent, it will regulate the temporal and spiritual institutions of society upon one uniform principle; and man will endeavor, if I may use the expression to […]
