opinion Quotes

“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“If people don’t like you, or they think you’re strange, then that’s their problem.”

― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. Remember that all is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:self others opinion

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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