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Oscar WildeMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

 - Oscar Wilde

Tags:   identity  mimicry  opinions  

Fred AstaireWhen working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

 - Fred Astaire

Tags:   artistry  choreography  opinions  

Thomas MannWe are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.

 - Thomas Mann

Tags:   opinions  opposition  

AristotleThe high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

 - Aristotle

Tags:   opinions  truth  

John LockeNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

 - John Locke

Tags:   opinions  opposition  

Friedrich NietzscheThe snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   mind  opinions  

Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   independence  opinions  solitude  

Bertrand RussellDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   eccentric  opinions  

Ralph Waldo EmersonMeek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   books  libraries  opinions  reading  views  

David HumeAll power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

 - David Hume

Tags:   opinions  power  

David HumeIt is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

 - David Hume

Tags:   government  opinions  

Michel de MontaigneMen are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   opinions  torment  

Blaise PascalThat queen of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   deceipt  falsehood  opinions  truth  

Marilyn FergusonNo one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be unlocked from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

 - Marilyn Ferguson

Tags:   arguments  change  opinions  persuasion  

Steve JobsYour time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

 - Steve Jobs

Tags:   dogma  intuition  life  opinions  time  

John F. KennedyFor the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

 - John F. Kennedy

Tags:   facts  myth  opinions  truth  

Cesare Bonesana Marchese di BeccariaThere is nothing more dangerous than the common axiom 'the spirit of the laws is to be considered'. To adopt it is to give way to the torrent of opinions. This may seem a paradox to vulgar minds, which are more strongly affected by the smallest disorder before their eyes, than by the most pernicious though remote consequences produced by one false principle adopted by a nation.

 - Cesare Bonesana Marchese di Beccaria

Tags:   disorder  laws  opinions  

Oscar WildeThere is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

 - Oscar Wilde

Tags:   community  culture  journalism  news  opinions  

Charles DarwinFalse facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

 - Charles Darwin

Tags:   facts  opinions  progress  science  truth