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“The deep slumber of a decided opinion.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Thoughts for the Cloister and Crowd, London, 1835, p. 21, quoted by Mill in "Liberty"
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“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”
Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady") Quotes Source: Mansfield Park (ch. XI)
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“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if
Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 21)
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“Facts are cheels that winna ding,
An' downs be disputed.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: A Dream
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“Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 1,173)
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“With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 624)
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“For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinion is by a wager.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Beppo (st. 27)
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“His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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“But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 13, 30)
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“Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (I, 545)
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“As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.”
Elizabeth I Quotes Source: Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle
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“It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot
take care of itself.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Medical Essays (211)
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“All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (II, 2, 58)
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“Intolerant only of intolerance.”
I.S.S.G. Quotes Source: in "Fraser's Mag.", Aug., 1863, in an article on Mr. Buckle in the East
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“Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes Source: in his first inaugural address
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“Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Man Made of Money, in the "Wit and Opinions of Jerrold", p. 28
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“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
Robert F. Kennedy Quotes Source: in a speech
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“We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree
with us.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (347)
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“Facts are stubborn things.”
Alain Rene Le Sage Quotes Source: Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation)
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“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”
Alain Rene Le Sage Quotes Source: Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation)
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“There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays--Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers
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“Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at
the expense of life.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Of Good and Evil (ch. XL)
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“Opinion is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: quoted as the title of an Italian work
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“He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
[Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: Lettres Provinciales (II)
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“Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is
opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais
l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: Pensees (art XXIV, 92)
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