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Opinions

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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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saying, Zen

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

George Bush

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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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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward