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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place.

George W. Bush

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions

Booth Tarkington

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

Thomas Jefferson

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Wilfrid Laurier

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual."

Anthony Burgess

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Lord Byron

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Douglas Adams

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Anthony Burgess

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Edward Gibbon

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Ezra Pound

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them

George Bush

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

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