Opinion Quotes - Page 4

• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Truth, Religion

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

  David Hume

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• Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.

  Richard Mant

  Errors, Seduction, Wells

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• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Motivation, Greatest Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

  Alexander Pope

  Doe, Obstinate, Persons

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Giving, Interesting, Want

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• It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

  Georges Duhamel

  Thinking, Bravery, Brave

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• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Society, Public Opinion, Privacy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

  Warren Beatty

  Believe, House, Public Opinion

  "Senator Bulworth vs. the Terminator" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

  Leo Burnett

  Advertising, Economy, Believability

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Minorities, Starting

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Believe, Order

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

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• And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Apples, Literature, Trouble

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• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Public Opinion, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Population, Honest

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

  Jim Henson

  Couple, Levels, Stuff

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• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Ocean, Public Opinion, Teaspoons

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• The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

  Henry James

  Men, Judging, Literature

  1890 The Tragic Muse, ch.9.

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Believe, Mean

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• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Peace, Thinking

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Mind, Gains, Conviction

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• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists". Book by Anne Chisholm, 1972.

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