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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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His opinion of verses.
That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
Works (1912) -
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
An Autobiography (1977) part III, sect. 2 -
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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