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We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...

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I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my op...

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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremend...

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There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

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Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting...

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The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...

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Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is ...

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Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise ins...

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I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

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In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...

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I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and worki...

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For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

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Hannah ArendtThe Origins of Totalitarianism

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...

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The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in obj...

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Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

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Nothing is my last word on anything.

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you t...

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

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If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...

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It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...

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El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opini...

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watch...

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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all th...

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from y...

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I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are...

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Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be me...

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I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm goin...

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We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...

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Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an a...

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The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

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Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

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Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the fa...

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John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

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John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong wit...

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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...

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No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment t...

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John Stuart MillConsiderations on Representative Government

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...

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John Stuart MillConsiderations on Representative Government

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be...

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we we...

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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is its...

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If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let...

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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write...

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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opini...

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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees ...

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I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

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

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a re...

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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to troub...

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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

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

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Marshall McLuhanThe Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a ...

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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and co...

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... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the ...

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Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak ...

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most...

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Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Ange...

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Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one ...

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable op...

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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figu...

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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosop...

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Noël CowardA Talent To Amuse: A Biography Of Noël Coward

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even ...

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I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at l...

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The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings...

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It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and ...

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Oscar WildeCriticism and Reviews

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who...

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But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to m...

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Knowledge is true opinion.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

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Piers AnthonyA Spell for Chameleon

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—i...

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate ...

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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a ...

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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.