Quotes about opinion

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

—John Stuart Mill

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The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense . . . was that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion demanded that they should burn none at all.

—Maurice Maeterlinck

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

—Booth Tarkington

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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

—Flannery O'Connor

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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