Opinions Quotes

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Quentin Crisp

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

Bertrand Russell

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself

Anthony Trollope

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

David Allen

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Franklin P. Jones

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Joan Baez

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself

Marcel Proust

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

Thomas Hobbes

Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is

Bertrand Russel

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false

Pierre Bayle

There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion.

Jeffrey Goines

So many men, so many opinions

Terence

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Thomas Hobbes

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.

Wolcott Gibbs

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Abraham Lincoln

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Blaise Pascal

0 12 3 4 5

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z