Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.
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