Opinions Quotes

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man

W. R. Inge

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them

William Gilmore Simms

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse.

Unknown

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Samuel Butler

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Horace Mann

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph Marie de Maistre

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Lichtenberg

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Jeanne-Marie Roland

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Marcel Pagnol

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwel

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy