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Opinions

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

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Best Quotes about Opinions

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

George Bush

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George