"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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"Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else."
"Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it."
"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
"He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold."
"On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known."
"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
"It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present."
"In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises."
"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong."
"Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
"Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly."
"No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things."
"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."
"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
"Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness."
"I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself."
"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."
"No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed."
"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 to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion."