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Opinion Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
- In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but…
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
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- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
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- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
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