Best opinion & he-man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.”

Knows Men Use Hands Spirit Opinion Know How He Man

“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.”

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!”

Ifs Men Remember Dies Poor Opinion He Man Depends Criticism Permission Doing Nothing

Book:The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.”

“I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.”

Men Wells I Can Real Wish Opinion He Man Bears Prejudice Errors Faults Remove

Book:(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president

Source: (v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president

“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.”

Men Opinion Atheism He Man Concerned Positive Atheism

Author:Martin Buber

“I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.”

Men Hard Opinion He Man Fixed Eggs Boiled Eggs

Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”

Men May Seems Opinion Middle Fronts He Man Extremes Revolutionary Benches Reactionaries

Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932

“It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.”

Men World Opinion Power He Man Confidence Disregard

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.”

Knows Men Firsts Able Courses Next Interest Opinion Subjects Taught He Man Words Of Wisdom Intelligent Educated Possessed Tiresome I Am Thankful Educated Man

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.”