Ralph Waldo Emerson Opinion Quotations

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.