Quotes
Quotes about Opinions
Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
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.
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.
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.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
