Opinion Quotes - Page 6

• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Beauty, Crazy

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• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, War, Generosity

  "7 insightful investing quotes from Warren Buffett", vintagevalueinvesting.com. September 28, 2017.

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• Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

  Lord Byron

  Attitude, Made, Changed

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• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Two, Hair, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.922, Xist Publishing

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• Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Change, Being Yourself

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Literature, Months

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

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• A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Politics, Common

  'Biographical Studies' (1881) 'The Character of Sir Robert Peel'

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• Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

  William Ralph Inge

  Average, Tyrants, Public Opinion

  Outspoken Essays Our Present Discontents (p. 9)

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dance, Hustle, Literature

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Different Opinions, Interest

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Vices, Literature

  "Lord Byron", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  Norman Tebbit

  Views, Paper, November

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• But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Matter, Consensus

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Tusc. Quæst, I, 13, 30, p. 569-70, 1922.

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• In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Order, Realizing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.67, Tuttle Publishing

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• I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

  Drake

  Confidence, Hater, Humble

  Song: A Scorpio's Mind

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• It were not best that we should all think alike.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Should, Differences Of Opinion

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Humor, Public Opinion

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Atheist, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.99, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Nature, Men, Errors

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 20), 1949.

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• A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Inspirational, Reality, Men

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, Groups

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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• It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Hard Times, Life Is Hard

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  Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

  Horace Mann

  Thinking, Years, Brain

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212

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