Opinion Quotes

"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."
-Voltaire

"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."
-Voltaire

"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
-Mark Twain

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
-Mark Twain

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

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Knowledge is true opinion."
-Plato

"Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."
-Socrates

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
-Thomas Jefferson

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-Oscar Wilde

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. "
-Oscar Wilde

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
-John F. Kennedy

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

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing."
-Epictetus

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
-Edmund Burke

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
-Edmund Burke

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art."
-Sallust

"He that complies against his will is of the same opinion still."
-Samuel Butler

"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion."
-Madonna

"Public opinion is a second conscience."
-William R. Alger

"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
-Wendell Phillips

"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth."
-Edgar Watson Howe