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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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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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Bush

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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 unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor