Opinion Quotes - Page 2

• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Voltaire

  Earthquakes, Political, Politics

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• Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Facts

  "Hayden Panettiere: I Struggled With Body Dysmorphia as a Teen" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Everyone is entitled to my opinion

  Madonna Ciccone

  Singers, Actresses, Famous Women

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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

  Enough, Not Sure, Burned

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• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Life, Confidence, Self Esteem

  "Orley Farm".

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• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Courage, Soul

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

  Sean MacBride

  Peace, Public Opinion, Use

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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• Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

  Mark Twain

  God, Thinking, Voice

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.44, St. Martin's Press

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• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  Walter Benjamin

  Oil, Doe, Machines

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.21, Harvard University Press

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• I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Down And, Standing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 73, 1799.

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• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, Thinking, Debt

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• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  John Milton

  Peace, Writing, Learning

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Military, Prejudice, Violence

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• Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Inspirational, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse”, p.200

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• I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

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• Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, World, Divided

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• It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

  David Souter

  Political, Politics, Easier

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• In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Math

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• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Life, Women, Conceited

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• A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Exercise, Rights

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

  Austin O'Malley

  Editors, Public Opinion, Politician

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• In America, public opinion is the leader

  Frances Perkins

  America, Leader, Public Opinion

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Running, Imagination, World

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