Plutarch Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

  Plutarch

  God, Belief, Opinion

• He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

  Plutarch

  Opinion, Should, Carthage

• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, Opinion

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.352

• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

  Plutarch

  People, Opinion, Said

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 55 Phocion. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

  Plutarch

  Character, Mean, Men

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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