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My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

“My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.” — H. P. Lovecraft, “The Transition of Juan Romero“

Author YahooeyPosted on December 2, 2016November 29, 2016Categories QuotationsTags experience, H. P. Lovecraft, opinion, The Transition of Juan Romero3 Comments on Quote of the Day

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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.” — James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows

Author YahooeyPosted on November 18, 2016November 17, 2016Categories QuotationsTags change opinion, dead, foolish, fools, James Russell Lowell, opinionLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.

“Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.” — Jack McDevitt, Omega

Author YahooeyPosted on November 13, 2016November 11, 2016Categories QuotationsTags Jack McDevitt, Omega, opinion, truth3 Comments on Quote of the Day

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We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

“We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.” — David Suzuki, “What a difference 50 years makes,” davidsuzuki.org (27 June 2008)

Author YahooeyPosted on May 14, 2016May 10, 2016Categories QuotationsTags David Suzuki, information, opinion, PrejudiceLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

“I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh

Author YahooeyPosted on February 27, 2015December 6, 2015Categories QuotationsTags criticism, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, opinion, self-judgementLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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When friends and acquaintances are telling you you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

“When friends and acquaintances are telling you you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.” — Carl Icahn, The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (or Gave)

Author YahooeyPosted on February 16, 2015January 17, 2015Categories QuotationsTags advice, Carl Icahn, genius, opinion1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.

“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter

Author YahooeyPosted on November 17, 2014January 30, 2015Categories QuotationsTags Ben Jonson, Discoveries made upon men and matter, imagination, opinion, reason, Timber, understandingLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.” — Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Young Clergyman (January 9, 1720)

Author YahooeyPosted on September 1, 2014July 22, 2014Categories QuotationsTags debate, Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Young Clergyman, opinion, reasoningLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. — William Hazlitt“We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.” — William Hazlitt, “On Court-Influence” (January 3/January 10, 1818)

Author YahooeyPosted on July 22, 2014July 21, 2014Categories QuotationsTags On Court-Influence, opinion, William Hazlitt2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less.

“You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Author YahooeyPosted on June 17, 2014December 12, 2015Categories QuotationsTags Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., opinion, praise, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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