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- It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
- Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
- The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they…
- Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance…
- It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
- When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
- Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
- No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
- I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
- Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to…
- The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
- Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
- Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if…
- One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary…
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
- In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he…
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with…
- 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…
- There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
- To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a…
- Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what…
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- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
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- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
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