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

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

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

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Bush

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

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bethania McKenstry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will