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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Truth, Fact, Hear

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Politics, Friend

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall

Friend, Once, Value

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Means

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg

Life, God, Baby

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Country, Public

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain

Loyalty, Human, Soul

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain

Best, Makes, Difference

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield

Crazy, Said, Ugly

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain

Perfect, Matters, Insane

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

Enjoy, Thought, Often

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Mark Twain

Worth, Public, Whose

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

Public, Published

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Free, Reason

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Office, Difference

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Reason

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character, Realize, Seem

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Mankind, Moves

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Society, Same

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

Money, May, Suspected

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Public, Alien, Ruler

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde

Matters, Insane

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Kurt Cobain

Until, Express, Answers

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character, Seem, Confession

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

Good, Friends, Honest

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Conveyed, Tone

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Regret, Two

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Will Rogers

Makes, Difference, Horse

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge, Ignorance, Between

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