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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 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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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.

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

Blake, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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 be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mark Twain

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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

Chapman, John Jay

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