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Opinion Quotes - Page 14

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.

"Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Quoted by Ted Weiss during a Congressional hearing, November 13, 1985.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.56, Biblo & Tannen Publishers