Opinion Quotes - Page 5

• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
  [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Queens, Use, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Able, Way

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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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• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.443, Psychology Press

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• My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humble

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Lazy, Sloth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Patience, Philosophical

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• If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Brilliant, Ifs

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• He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

  Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

  Taste, Slave, Depends

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• There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• Opinion is the queen of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Queens, World

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.125

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• Public opinion in this country is everything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Government, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.57, Library of America

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• False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Money, Men, Knowing

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.239, Routledge

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• Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Views, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 09, 2013

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