Opinions

(31 votes)   Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Wayne Dyer
1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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(347 votes)   The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(277 votes)   Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(241 votes)   Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger
1822-1905, American Writer

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(191 votes)   Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Marcus Antonius
c.83-30 BC, Roman Triumvir, Related to Julius Caesar

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(155 votes)   Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(128 votes)   Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(116 votes)   People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(114 votes)   Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(114 votes)   The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(113 votes)   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
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(103 votes)   We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(102 votes)   Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(99 votes)   The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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