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  The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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• The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

  Helen Caldicott

  Inspirational, Public Opinion, Unbeatable

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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• Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Destiny, Progress, Public Opinion

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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  Wendell Phillips

  Truth, Blood, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1859). “Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker”, p.6

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• The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

  William Hazlitt

  Voice, Echoes, Firsts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Stomach, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.56

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• The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
  At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
  By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
  By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

  Daniel Amen

  Happiness, Caring, Thinking

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• Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

  Mark Twain

  Fruition

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

  John Stuart Mill

  Evil, Liberty, Would Be

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  Zhuangzi

  Fall, Winter, Autumn

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

  Mark Twain

  Instance, Persons, Has Beens

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

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• Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

  Alexander Pope

  Morning, Night, Thinking

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 430

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• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Robert G. Allen

  Leadership, Dream, Crazy

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Agree, My Own

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• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

  Ernestine Rose

  Powerful, Character, Law

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  Patrick Leahy

  Funny, Fifteen, Rooms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every reform was once a private opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reform, Catchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

  William Gilbert

  Ideas, Inferiority, Littles

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• You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Appreciation, Shining, May

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• It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

  Walter Raleigh

  World, Travel The World, Passports

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.3

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• 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.

  Mavis Gallant

  People, Half, World

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• A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Wise, Grudge, Politician

  'The Endless Adventure' (1930) vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 20

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• It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

  Stephanie McMahon

  Father, Dating, Wrestler

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• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Organized

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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