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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwel)

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. (Quote by - Sallust)

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. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. (Quote by - Epictetus)

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. (Quote by - John Erskine)

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (Quote by - John Locke)

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right. (Quote by - Bill Dixon)

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. (Quote by - Jeanne-Marie Roland)

For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not. (Quote by - Payne Stewart)

Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.' (Quote by - W B Yeats)

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management. (Quote by - Richard Gough)

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. (Quote by - David Attenborough)

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

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