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Opinion Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual…
- I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient…
- Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
- Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we…
- When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they…
- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much…
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- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- 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
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet