I am a feather for each wind that blows.
William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: morality values opinion integrity character

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion--it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: opinion self-confidence independence thought peace serenity

...changing your mind is easy; changing your heart is hard.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: change opinion bias beliefs self-improvement habit

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage--to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature--is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Gardner Murphy Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: opinion open-mindedness growth learning education

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, but and fruit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: growth change progress self-improvement instinct opinion knowledge