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Opinions

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

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Navon, Yitzhak

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Saying, Zen

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

Pope, Alexander

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Platiere, Jeane

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Renan, Ernest

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Epictetus

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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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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Batcheller, Irving

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