OPINION QUOTES VII

quotations about opinion


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It is always chilling in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

GEORGE ELIOT
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The Mill on the Floss


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Tags: George Eliot


Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Genuine belief ended with persecution. As soon as it was felt that to punish a man for maintaining an independent opinion was shocking and unjust, so soon a doubt had entered whether the faith established was unquestionably true.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

The Nemesis of Faith

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to Leo Baeck, 1953

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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

JOHN STUART MILL

Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government

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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Sentiment of Rationality

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Correct opinions, well established on any subject, are the best preservative against the seductions of error.

BISHOP MANT

attributed, Holy Thoughts on Holy Things


It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

PATRICK LENCIONI

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team


I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

HELEN KELLER

The Story of My Life

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I suppose he's entitled to his opinion, but I don't suppose it very hard.

ISAAC ASIMOV

"Seven Steps to Grand Master"

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The strength of false opinion is of such force that it overthroweth the love betwixt man and wife, betwixt father and child, betwixt friend and friend, and betwixt master and servant.

DEMOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion.

LEO TOLSTOY

Patriotism and Christianity

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If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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If an opinion be erroneous, it requires discussion, that its errors may be exposed; if it be true, it will gain adherents in proportion as it is examined.

THOMAS COOPER

Philosophical Writings of Thomas Cooper


I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well-supported in logic and argument than others.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

American Atheist Magazine, winter 1998-1999

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We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

The Nemesis of Faith

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