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Quotes about Opinion

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!

Jonathan Swift,satirist (1667-1745)
Source: My diary
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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Sri Aurobindo : Gaia Explorer
Sri Aurobindo
Source: Sri Aurobindo. Jnana // ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN. Vol.17: http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/sa/17/0066_e.htm
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On both sides of a war, how many mothers must face the death of their sons because a politician will not face the death of one misguided opinion?

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
 
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He that would win another over to his opinion must seem to harmonize with him at first and humour him in his own way of talking. From my childhood I had an unaccountable turn of thought that way.

David Berman
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates (c.460 - 400 BC)
 
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
 
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If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill : British economist & philosopher
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
 
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : American Statesman (35th US president: 1961-63), youngest president
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
 
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Angela Carter (1940 - 1992)
 
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Inge
 
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
 
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Source: Unknown
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A representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.

Edmund Burke : British statesman
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Source: Quoted in the musical stage play 1776, Peter Stone & Sherman Edwards, 1964
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What are the facts? Again and again and again—what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history"; what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: Time Enough for Love, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

Murray Rothbard : Gaia Child
Murray Rothbard
 
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"When a man gives his opinion he's a man.
When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
 
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Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi : Gaia Child
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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. . . The slogan "You are entitled to your opinion" is so often repeated that is near impossible for the brain of a modern Westerner not to have absorbed it.

Like many other views that have at times enjoyed universal assent, however, it isn't true. You don't really have the right to your own opinions. And the idea that you do, beside being false, is forever being invoked when it would be irrelevant even if it were true.

Jamie Whyte
Source: Crimes Against Logic, Page: 2
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