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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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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

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

Blake, William

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

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

Klopstock

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Charles A. Dana

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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 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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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Chapman, John Jay