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Opinions

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Charles A. Dana

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Victoria, Queen

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

George Bush

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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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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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward