Quotes
Quotes about Opinions
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.
God give us men. The time demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly.
My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
These are only my opinions. You should see my convictions.
These are only my opinions. You should see my convictions.
My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
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.
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.
