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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most read more
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat read more
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of read more
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, read more
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.