Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

• You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Needs, Asking

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, People, Care

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.162, Modern Library

• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (18), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Peace, War, Men

• When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hate, Voice, People

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.138, Penguin UK

• If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Giving, Opinion

• The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Change, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.19, Everyman's Library

• Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Two, Giving, Community

• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Men, Others Opinions

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.129, Enhanced Media Publishing

• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Pain, Complaining

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

• A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Hands, Two

• Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Assumption, Judgment

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Names, Opinion

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Thinking, Opinion

• The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  World, Opinion, This Life

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.54, Diversion Books

• Everything is mere opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Mere

• Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Use, May

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Opinion, Harm

• When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Hate, Heart

• Remember that all is opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Criticism, Opinion, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (15), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Transformation, Life Is

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.22, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Littles, Wheels

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

• Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
  thyself of, when thou wilt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Grief, Causes, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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