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Opinions

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

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

George Bush

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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 feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Byron, Lord

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Epictetus

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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Buckle, George Earle