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Opinion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
- Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
- We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
- A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up…
- Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
- We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
- Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,…
- I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the…
- The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish…
- Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
- He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate…
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
- Every reform was once a private opinion.
- Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.…
- All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling…
- One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and…
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions…
- [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth…
- Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
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