Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.—Joubert.
It has been shrewdly said that when men abuse us, we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rare to despise praise, which we do. But that integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.—Colton.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.—Montaigne.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.—Voltaire.
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.—Swift.
One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is, to suppose that other men's opinions are to make us happy.—Burton.
It is with true opinions which one has the courage to utter as with pawns first advanced on the chess-board; they may be beaten, but they have inaugurated a game which must be won.—Goethe.
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.—Mme. Roland.
Opportunity.—The cleverest of all devils is opportunity.—Vieland.
Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.—Rochefoucauld.