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“'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.”
“I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”
“There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.”
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
“Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.”
“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.”
“Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.”
“It were not best that we should all think alike it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.”
“Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.”
“It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.”
“Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”
“The feeble tremble before opinion the foolish defy it the wise judge it the skillful direct it.”
“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.”
“Sometimes the unyielding are just fighting to stay alive. No one wants to find out that their life was a lie. And when you change someone’s mind, you are only rebirthing them into your reality. You...”
“I think it’s all a facade. I think you wear a mask to show us, the media and the public, how you want to be perceived, but behind closed doors and deep down inside lies the real Shin Shaojin. A man...”
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
“Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.”
“...Opinion without a rational process.”