opinion Quotes

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

“Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.”

"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them."

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical... ...

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.