Opinions - Quotes

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. - Douglas Adams

As our inclinations, so our opinions. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. - Gore Vidal

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

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

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand. - Robert G. Allen

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

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. - Benjamin Franklin

For you to insult me, I must first value your opinion. - Unknown

If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. - Jonathan Swift

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. - Epictetus 

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions. - Unknown

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. - David H. Souter

It is not advisable ... to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. - Ayn Rand

It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion? - Walter Lippmann

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. - Jane Austen

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself. - C. JoyBell C

Men are disturbed, not by things that happen, but by their opinion of things that happen. - Epictetus

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. - Andre Gide

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

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. - Unknown

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. - Georg Christopher Lichtenberg

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

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. - Herbert Spencer

Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at? - Lord Bryon

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism. - William Strunk

Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense. - Edward Counsel

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government. - Abraham Lincoln

Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement. - Christian Nestell Bovee

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true. - George Santayana  

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. - Henry Ward Beecher

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. - Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. - Austin O’Malley

Remember that all is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it. - David J. Lieberman

Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him. - Abraham Miller

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 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 foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. - James Lowell

The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions. - Leonardo da Vinci

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation. - Norman MacDonald

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. - William Hazlitt

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed. - George Henry Lewes

The opinion we have of ourselves is often a reflection of the opinion we think others have of us. - Unknown

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. - Bertrand Russell

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. - Herbert Spencer

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. - Samuel Butler

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries. - Samuel Smiles

The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you. - Unknown

The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion. - John Stuart

The world is governed by opinion. - William Ellery Channing

There are as many opinions as there are experts. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is nothing in the world so easy as giving an opinion; consequently, in general, there are few things so utterly valueless. - Charles William Day

There’s only one opinion that counts. It’s your opinion. It may be wrong, but it’s yours and that’s the one that counts - Filipe Alou

Those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. - Unknown

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. - Walter Lippmann

Unity of opinion, abstractedly considered, is neither desirable, nor a good ... for men may be all agreed in error, and in that case unanimity is an evil. - Charles Caleb Colton

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. - Georg Christopher Lichtenberg

We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion. - William Hazlitt

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side. - Thomas Mann

We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don’t care for. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We cling to our own point of view, as thought everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. - Chuang Tzu

When facts challenge your opinion, re-examine your opinion. - Dermod Travis

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. - John Milton

Your opinions are worthless and count for absolutely nothing! - Unknown

Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception – do not confuse them with "facts" or "truth". Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint. - John Moore

Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. - Comic Strip Mama