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Opinions

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Peter, Laurence J.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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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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 have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Renan, Ernest

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rogers, Will

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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

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

Victoria, Queen