Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Ignorance, Pride

• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

• Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Character, Enemy

• We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, People, Opinion

• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agreement, Opinion, Share

• Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Loss, Needs, Opinion

• Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Enemy, Opinion, Form

• Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Pride, Want

• It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Party, Taken, Pride

• The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Secret, Half

• Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Bears, Taste

• The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Education, Self, People

• Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perseverance, Men, Giving

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