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Opinion Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
- No really great man ever thought himself so.
- A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
- We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any…
- We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
- You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,…
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but…
- The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
- The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
- Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
- Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
- Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
- Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
- True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where…
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