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Opinions

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

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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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.