Definition of Sentiment

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Sentiment

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.

Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.

A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.

Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.

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Sentiment Quotations

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster

Sentiment Translations

sentiment in Dutch is gevoel, sentiment, gevoeligheid

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