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Opinions

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry