Best opinion & quality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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)

“Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.”

May Self Feelings Certain Quality Opinion Pride Satisfied Vanity Imaginary Complacency Qualifications

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

Ifs Giving Doe Real Character Would Be Quality Opinion Evidence Mark Errors Queens Fancy Falsehood Deceiving Infallible Deceitful

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.”

Has Beens Said Form Growth Quality Opinion Worst Assuming Arrogance Consideration Politeness Dogmatism

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.”

Giving Pleasure Quality Opinion Praise Concur

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.”

Source: New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace

“If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.”

Ifs Men Two Soul Whole Natural Quality Moral Opinion Virtue Acquire Faculty Disposition Prudence Cleverness Forming Opinions

Author:Aristotle

“Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.”

People Ifs Ideas Country Philosophy Home Young Natural My Own Quality Opinion Prejudice Intelligent Philosophical China Chinese Creeds Sophistication Homesick Naivete

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”

Source: ON READING: Le plaisir de lire

“We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was atime you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.”

Source: Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

“I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.”

Quality Opinion Television High Quality

Author:Michael Schur

“All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.”

Happens Quality Responsibility Opinion Mankind Color Praise Distinction Entitled Censure Deformity Personal Qualities

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.”

Thinking Men Important Whole Girl Strong Quality Opinion Men And Women Tough Bunch Vulnerable Supposed To Be Being A Girl

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Writing Enough Might Half Quality Opinion Please Lows Dozen

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.”

Men Belief Quality Opinion Ignorance Obedience Plague Suitable

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.”

Common Quality Opinion Resources Stupidity Consistency Steadiness

Book:Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état

Source: Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état

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