Quotes About Opinion

Now here is the babyish trash.

sami ?ete mo?i, kao i ja, donijeti sud o svemu ili barem tako misliti, a to je isto.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.

Opinion is a flitting thing. But truth outlasts the sun.

Penny for your thoughts!' he said. 'They're not worth a penny,' said George

surprise he turned and spat into the ditch. 'That's what I think of him!

Still more revelations: Squib: What's your opinion of Game of Thrones , boss? Angry clattering of furniture. Vern: Game of Thrones ? Are you trying to push my buttons, kid? Game of fucking thrones ! Those dragons are like servants - you see me doing any fucking mother of dragon's bidding? I'd never serve humans! Squib: I didn't mean nothing - Vern: Goddamn lapdog CGI motherfucking fire lizards. Heap of shit. Conclusion: Vern really did not like Game of Thrones.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things inour control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in aword, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our controlare body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word,whatever are not our own actions. The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained,unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish,restrained, belonging to others.

reflection will show that people are put off by nothing so much as what they think is unreasonable, and attracted to nothing more than what to them seems reasonable.

So – a true philosopher is under no obligation to respect vulgar opinion as to what is religious or irreligious, what is just or unjust. What dishonour he brings on philosophers in general if he did! That's not what you learned here.

Remind yourself, "What upsets this person is their opinion of what has happened. Another in the same circumstance, taking a different perspective, would react quite differently."   Do not share these thoughts with the grieving person. Sympathize with them—even cry with them. Your tears will be outward, not inward.

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.

Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it's based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body. [36]

Our government," Lincoln declared, "rests on public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government." The task of Republicans was to counteract Democrats' "gradual and steady debauching of public opinion" until it no longer valued the central ideal of equality.52 Like the abolitionists, Lincoln saw public sentiment as the terrain on which the crusade against slavery was to be waged.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience—the knowledge that our mighty deeds will come to the ears of our contemporaries or "of those who are to be." We are ready to sacrifice our true, transitory self for the imaginary eternal self we are building up, by our heroic deeds, in the opinion and imagination of others.

Pascal was of the opinion that "one was well-minded to understand holy writ when one hated oneself."20 There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity

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