Quotes
Quotes about Opinion
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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.
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for thisâthat we may have and change our opinions.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
