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The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") There are opinions which come from the heart, and whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. - Joseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. - Joseph Joubert We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. - Joseph Joubert One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. - Friedrich O. Klopstock We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (347) Facts are stubborn things. - Alain Rene Le Sage, Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation) It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. - Abraham Lincoln Public opinion in this country is everything. - Abraham Lincoln Opinion, which on crutches walks, And sounds the words another talks. - Robert Lloyd The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. - James Russell Lowell Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions. - Sir James Mackintosh Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. - Thomas Mann Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. - Richard Mant Everything is mere opinion. - Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. - John Stuart Mill Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays--Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Of Good and Evil (ch. XL) One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Opinion is the queen of the world. [Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.] - Blaise Pascal, quoted as the title of an Italian work Displaying page 3 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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