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Opinions Quotes by Mark Twain
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
- When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,…
- I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
- Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
More Opinions Quotes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — 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
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? — Joan Baez
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou