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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Francis Hopkinson, Mar. 13, 1789
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL, "Sex and the Law," Homage to Daniel Shays
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, Note Books
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
HERBERT SPENCER, First Principles
Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception--do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint.
JOHN MOORE, Quotations for Martial Artists
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, speech, Jun. 12, 1942
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
MARK TWAIN, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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