Quotes
Quotes about Opinion
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Absurdity, n. a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Referendum, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"
She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis, For which small thanks are still the market price, Even where the article at highest rate is.
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
