Quotes about opinions

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Acton, Lord on opinions
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"Public opinion is a second conscience."

Alger, William R. on opinions   

"Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us."

Antonius, Marcus on opinions   

"Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion."

Arendt, Hannah on opinions   

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

Aurelius, Marcus on opinions
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."

Austen, Jane on opinions   

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"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."

Baruch, Bernard M. on opinions
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"I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care."

Basinger, Kim on opinions
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"Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree."

Batcheller, Irving on opinions   

"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent."

Beecher, Henry Ward on opinions   

"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."

Benjamin, Walter on opinions   

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

Blake, William on opinions   

"Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end."

Brooks, Phillips on opinions   

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on opinions
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"Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on opinions   

"To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile."

Buckle, George Earle on opinions   

"A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

Buffett, Warren on opinions   

"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."

Butler, Samuel on opinions   

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"Opinions have vested interests just as men have."

Butler, Samuel on opinions   

"Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?"

Byron, Lord on opinions   

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."

Carlyle, Thomas on opinions   

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

Chapman, John Jay on opinions   

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

Chuang Tzu on opinions   

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Churchill, Winston on opinions
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"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on opinions   

"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on opinions   

"What you think of me is none of my business."

Cole-Whittaker, Terry on opinions
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"Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea."

Colton, Charles Caleb on opinions   

"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."

Disraeli, Benjamin on opinions   

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"A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay."

Downey Jr., Robert on opinions   

"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks."

Duhamel, George on opinions   

"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."

Dyer, Wayne on opinions
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions
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"The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions   

"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."

Erskine, John on opinions   

"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on opinions