Great Throughts Treasury

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Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana

The ambitious man grasps at opinion as necessary to his designs; the vain man sure for it as a testimony to his merit; the honest man demands it as his due; and most men consider it as necessary to their existence.

Existence | Man | Men | Merit | Opinion | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sights are the signs of its greatest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Joy | Love | Reason | Silence | Tenderness | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinions of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Opinion | Wisdom |

Frank Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you hadn't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Opinion | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

The main reason why silence is so efficacious an element of repute is, first, because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondly, because silence provokes no man's envy, and wounds no man's self-love.

Envy | Love | Man | Reason | Self | Self-love | Silence | Wisdom |

Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences.

Experience | Mother | Opinion | Wisdom |

William Ellery Channing

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defense around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms.

Defense | Judgment | Life | Life | Men | Opinion | Power | Progress | Property | Society | Wisdom | World |

William Congreve

Even silence may be eloquent in love.

Love | Silence | Wisdom |

Agatha Christie, fully Dame Agatha Miller Christie

To say that every crime brings its own punishment is by way of being a platitude, and yet in my opinion nothing can be truer.

Crime | Nothing | Opinion | Punishment | Wisdom |

Martinus Dumiensis

If you yourself cannot keep silent, how can you expect silence from another?

Silence | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Enough | Grave | Silence | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Change of opinion is often only the progress of sound thought and growing knowledge; and though sometimes regarded as an inconsistency, it is but the noble inconsistency natural to a mind ever ready for growth and expansion of thought, and that never fears to follow where truth and duty may lead the way.

Change | Duty | Growth | Inconsistency | Knowledge | Mind | Opinion | Progress | Sound | Thought | Truth | Wisdom | Thought |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Opinion | Prejudice | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist. This in my opinion is true in a certain sense even in technical schools.... The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Ability | Judgment | Knowledge | Man | Opinion | Personality | Sense | Thinking | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money | Opinion | Will | Wisdom |

Florus NULL

Just as bad is too much silence as too much talk.

Silence | Wisdom |