All BLAISE PASCAL Quotes about “Opinions”

“...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.”
“The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”
“Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.”
“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]”
“The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.”
“No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.”
“Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.”
“Opinion is the queen of the world.”
“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”
“Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.”

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