All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
– Michel de Montaigne
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- Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. – Michel de Montaigne
- To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom. – Michel de Montaigne
- Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.But you ought to follow your own inner voice. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush. – Ellen DeGeneres
- Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. – Brennan Manning
- When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. – Michel de Montaigne
- I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. – Michel de Montaigne
- He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Michel de Montaigne
- The thing I fear most is fear. – Michel de Montaigne
- We have nothing to fear but fear itself – Michel de Montaigne
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. – Michel de Montaigne
- We should tend our freedom wisely. – Michel de Montaigne
- The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. – Michel de Montaigne
- No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does. – Michel de Montaigne
- The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne
- Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together. – Michel de Montaigne
- Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. – Michel de Montaigne
- If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. – Michel de Montaigne
- Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. – Michel de Montaigne
- Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. – Michel de Montaigne
- There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger – Michel de Montaigne
- Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne
- I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so. – Michel de Montaigne
- A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne
- Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. – Michel de Montaigne
- If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. – Michel de Montaigne
- So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about. – Stephen L Carter
- Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry… – Thomas Jefferson
- Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. – Thomas Jefferson
- Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions. – Debasish Mridha MD
- If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good – Ezra Pound
- Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. – Mark Batterson
- Sometimes, we become afraid to change because others judgment and opinions. Then, we making puerile excuses to please others, not ourselves. – Rofithah Omar
- Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? – Brigham Young
- Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v – Steve Jobs
- Learning from your mistake is good, but learning from others mistake is better. – Japson
- Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. – Ernest Hemingway
- Christmas ought to be brought up to date,- Maria said. -œIt ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. – John Masefield