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Knowledge is true opinion.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

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Piers AnthonyA Spell for Chameleon

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—i...

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate ...

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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a ...

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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessari...

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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forev...

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Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy ...

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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentime...

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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of...

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An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know...

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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion...

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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion ...

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It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousa...

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It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousa...

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My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pr...

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Søren KierkegaardRepetition and Philosophical Crumbs

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too ...

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In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you p...

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So many men so many opinions.

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views up...

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It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs f...

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with bol...

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...

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The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lea...

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What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while y...

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The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climat...

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotte...

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He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of th...

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So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, o...

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi...

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I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapabl...

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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...

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

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

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

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

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or la...

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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great govern...

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense ...

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Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be di...

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China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In...

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is reall...

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...

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A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but li...

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, e...

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There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an indiv...

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...Opinion without a rational process.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and...

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...

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Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, w...

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He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

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Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no ...

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'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them...

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The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

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

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One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out o...

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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison...

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

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If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of on...

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Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean ...

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I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of ...

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The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right i...

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We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...

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I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my op...

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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremend...

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There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.