Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Misattributed
Source: Cited as being from The Meditations. This quote does not exist there; although there are several other statements about everything being an opinion, none of these are connected to a sentence about perspectives.
“Each vulgar opinion, proved to be erroneous, is an approximation to truth.”
Book I, ch. II, The Passage from Madeira to the Cape Verd Islands, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope.
A Voyage Round the World (1777)
“Western Civ,” p. 18.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“The truth is, the generality of mankind stand in awe of public opinion, while conscience is feared only by the few.”
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.
Letter 20, 9.
Letters, Book III
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.”
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
“Search for the Grain of Truth in Other Opinions”
Title of Lesson 52
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all Small Stuff (1997)
“It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.”
Fantastic Metropolis, Christmas Editorial (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/20011209/3/)
“Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
Variant: Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
