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~ Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State ~ ~ It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~ ~ The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ~ ~ Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
~ ~ Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ~ ~ I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ~ ~ The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty ~ ~ Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at? ~ ~ All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ ~ I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. ~ ~ I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ~ ~ New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. ~ ~ The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ~ ~ I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ~ ~ If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good ~ ~ New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ ~ I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ~ ~ We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ ~ The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ~ ~ Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. ~ ~ The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself ~ ~ So many men, so many opinions ~ ~ I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ~ ~ Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. ~ ~ Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence ~ ~ Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence ~ ~ While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does ~ ~ Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them ~ ~ It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present ~ ~ 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. ~ |
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