Opinions Quotes

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.

What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion
Lester Markel

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence

While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing

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

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

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

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.

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







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