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Opinions

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Antonius, Marcus

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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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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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Churchill, Winston

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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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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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Blake, William

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.