Opinions Quotes
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There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.
John Stuart Mill
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Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
Cass McCombs
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Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.
Steve Howe Yes
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.
Alfred Lansing
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I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.
James Anthony Froude
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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Ben Affleck
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Often people say they can't base their strategies on customers because customers make unreasonable requests and because customers vary too much. Such opinions reveal serious misconceptions. The truly outside-in company definitely does not try to serve all the needs of its customers. Instead, its managers are clear about what their organization can and should do for customers, and whatever they do they do well. They focus.
Barbara Bund
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That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Jonathan Swift
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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
Winifred Holtby
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
Epictetus
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
Abraham Lincoln
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
Henrik Ibsen
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The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.
Martin Luther
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Opinions are like kittens. People are always giving them away.
Elizabeth Bear
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I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
Barbara Crampton
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Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We should say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'
Emile Chartier
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At this point we are offering opinions, and I will get facts at the next board meeting.
Chris Black
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If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one
Ernst Happel
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.
Galileo Galilei
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
Kenko Yoshida
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings