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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Opinion 762
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. Grace Murray Hopper Opinion 416
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard Baruch Opinion 233
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. Charles M. Schwab Opinion 180
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. Samuel Butler Opinion 175
Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. Madonna Opinion 143
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. Samuel Johnson Opinion 139
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. Napoleon Bonaparte Opinion 138
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Warren Buffett Opinion 129
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Mark Twain Opinion 113
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. Oscar Wilde Opinion 110
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein Opinion 110
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. Will Rogers Opinion 109
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. Ernest Renan Opinion 107
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them. Friedrich Nietzsche Opinion 105
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. Bertrand Russell Opinion 99
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. Michel de Montaigne Opinion 97
Its hard to be wrongfully accused but its worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. Patrick Rothfuss Opinion 96
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli Opinion 96
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Wendell Phillips Opinion 95
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Sir Winston Churchill Opinion 94
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer Opinion 92
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. Wayne Dyer Opinion 92
Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce Opinion 91
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka Opinion 89
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. Oliver Wendell Holmes Opinion 88
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Opinion 88
Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell Opinion 87
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Tryon Edwards Opinion 87
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Opinion 87
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Jane Austen Opinion 86
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. Marcus Antonius Opinion 85
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. Oscar Wilde Opinion 83
It is difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain Opinion 82
Criticism is just someone elses opinion. Even people who are experts in their elds are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it none of it or all of it. What you think is what counts. Rodolfo Costa Opinion 82
Every man has a right to his own opinion but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts Bernard M. Baruch Opinion 80
I sometimes thinkHis critical judgement is so exquisiteIt leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion. Christopher Fry Opinion 80
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Opinion 80
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes Opinion 79
If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be? Source Unknown Opinion 79
I dont care what you think unless it is about me. Kurt Cobain Opinion 79
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. George Earle Buckle Opinion 78
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. David H. Souter Opinion 76
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. Walter Benjamin Opinion 76
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. Queen Victoria Opinion 74
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake Opinion 74
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you cant control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. Marcus Aurelius Opinion 74
And if by the end of this book you reckon you might still disagree with me then I offer you this youll still be wrong but youll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now. Ben Goldacre Opinion 74
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. Bertrand Russell Opinion 74
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion. Source Unknown Opinion 73

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