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QUOTES including the word: "opinion"

de Sade,Marquis:
  • So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

    • Kierkegaard:
  • I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

    • Hobbes:
  • The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”

    • Schweitzer:
  • Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

    • Carl Sandburg:
  • A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

    • Herbert Marcuse:
  • Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

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

    • Jules Verne:
  • We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

    • John Locke:
  • Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused

    • Marcus Aurelius:
  • Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

    • Jane Austen:
  • Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

    • Luther:
  • I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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