"Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men."
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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel."
"I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning."
"Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force."
"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves."
"As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times."
"The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion."
"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion."
"The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality."
"NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny."
"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
"There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude."
"I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity."
"No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them."
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
"That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is."
"Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand."
"Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property."
"Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life."