"We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion."
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"I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made."
"All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud."
"The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the strongest sorts."
"I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them."
"I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly."
"Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment."
"There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions."
"The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious."
"All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim."
"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."
"Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure."
"Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say."
"I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own."
"When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing."
"There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something."
"In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists."
"As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me."
"The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods."
"The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!"