We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.