| Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. -- Charles Evans Hughes |
| Author:
Hughes, Charles E.Era:
1862 |
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| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. -- John Weiss |
| Author:
Weiss, JohnEra:
1818 |
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| To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope |
| Author:
Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. -- Plutarch |
| Author:
PlutarchEra:
46 |
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| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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