Opinion Quotes
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.
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Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
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England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
