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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Jeanne-Marie Roland

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

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Marcel Pagnol

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Elbert Hubbard

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwel

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Thomas H. Huxley

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Walter Pater

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Ambrose Bierce

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Bill Maher

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry B. Adams

Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.

Francis Bacon

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable, and outweigh all others, while they are consistent with facts and with each other; but they are worse than useless when they lead, as in this instance, to directly opposite opinions.

Peter Barlow

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information

John Erskine

For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

Lord Byron

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice

William Hazlitt

Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side

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