Quotes about Opinions (page 3)

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“The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.”
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“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.”
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“It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.”
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“The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.”
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“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
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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.”
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“Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”
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“Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”
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“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”
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“No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”
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“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”
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“Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.”
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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.”
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“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.”
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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
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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.”
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“The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.”
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“Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.”
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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.”
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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!”
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“Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.”
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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.”
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“I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.”
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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.”
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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”
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“A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.”
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