"Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion."
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"Busy opinion is an idle fool."
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
"Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun."
"In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law."
"It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
"The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law."
"I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration."
"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."
"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
"A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it."
"Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world"
"Be independent of the good opinion of other people."
"People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted."
"Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts."
"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."
"They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses."
"I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me."
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
"People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions."