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Author:Socrates

“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.”

Thinking Whole Together Jobs Past Opportunity Pleasure Opinion Careers Regret Fool Anxiety Add Financial Uncertainty Panic Public Opinion Reminding Past Regrets

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”

Opinion Fool Busy Idle

Author:John Ford

“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”

Knows May Persons Art Silence Quality Opinion Fool Conversation Gains Credit Tongue Wit Silence Is Great Art Eloquence Art Of Conversation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]”

Opinion Fool Imitation Herds Imitator

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.”

May Said Sometimes Opportunity Chance Opinion Courage Fool Fortune Favors Enterprise Prudent Valor

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.”

Knows Men World Mean Use Term Common Opinion This World Fool Ten Ass Herds Precision

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan

“If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ends States Opinion Fool Silly

Book:Selected Short Plays

Source: Selected Short Plays

“He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.”

Ifs Men Wells Sides Opinion Fool Ought Judgment Coward Consent

Author:Daniel Defoe

“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.”

People Ifs Believe Said Belief Opinion Imagine Fool Accounts Hills Indifferent Propose

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.”

Opinion Fool Fishes Melancholy Bait Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.”

Men Firsts May Moments Lasts Winning Opinion Wise Fool Argument Sticks

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.”

Men Opinion Fool Habit Inward

Book:Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index

Source: Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index

“The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.”

Men Done Opinion Fool Office Ill Ships Possessed Harbors Athens

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.”

Way Kind Has Beens Might Political Certain Opinion Danger Fool Idealism Retreat Scorned Political Opinions

Author:Susan Sontag

“When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.”

Mind May Reason Facts Opinion Atheism Fool Protect Argument Prejudice Conviction Kingdoms Providence Adversaries Merry Dominion Blithe

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”

Kind Two Change Opinion Comedy Fool Can't Change

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.”

Ifs Wells Sides Opinion Fool Coward

Author:Daniel Defoe

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”

Ifs Knows Humans Different Sides Human Beings Opinion Fool Satisfied Pigs Dissatisfied Utilitarianism Different Opinions

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.”

Writing Opinion Written Fool Waste Pages Letters Notes Obvious Usual Uncles Closing Seals Salutations

Book:An Echo in the Bone: A Novel

Source: An Echo in the Bone: A Novel

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”

Men World Running Wish Opinion Fool Gold Regard Folly Honour Toil Phantoms

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German

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