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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. -- Pierre Bayle
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. -- George Clooney
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. -- Nick Denton
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. -- Edith Sitwell
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise. -- David Novak
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. -- Herb Caen
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. -- Rupert Sheldrake
I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person. -- Dennis Christopher
I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against. -- Sheena Iyengar
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. -- John Biddle
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear. -- Martin Seligman
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. -- Benjamin Franklin
Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children. -- Henry B. Eyring
The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe in me. They respect my opinion. At least I have an opinion, and I'm not trying to play it safe. I don't go around saying, 'I think everyone is great, and the world is fantastic.' Everyone has opinions. They just don't say it. -- Estelle
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. -- John Ralston Saul
First tell the truth, then give your opinion. -- Dennis Prager
Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. -- John Ralston Saul
Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun. -- Emily Dickinson
Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion. -- Michael Ondaatje
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. -- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation. -- Steve Lawson
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders. -- Walter Cronkite
All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth. -- Jean Louis
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. -- David A. Bednar
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. -- Vaclav Havel
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -- Oscar Wilde
Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. -- Augustus William Hare
Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion -- Dennis Prager
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. -- Rajneesh
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. -- Walter Raleigh
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. -- Richard Avedon
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another. -- Ezra Miller
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -- Marcus Aurelius
I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth. -- Johnny Depp
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist. -- Max Eastman
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom. -- Bill Jay
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. -- Epictetus
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. -- Wendell Phillips
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. -- E. W. Howe
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. -- Ralph Venning
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. -- Edgar Allan Poe
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject. -- Oscar Zeta Acosta
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. -- Jean Rostand
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. -- Herman Melville
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. -- Emily Dickinson
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth. -- Epictetus
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action. -- John Stuart Mill
The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth. -- Louise Hay
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world. -- Madame de Stael
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease. -- Viera Scheibner
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth. -- Rudyard Kipling
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922) -- Katherine Mansfield
My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace. -- Ichabod Spencer

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