Quotes about Opinions

"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."
-Albert Einstein

"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."
-Mark Twain

"Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else."
-Mark Twain

"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
-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

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."
-Plato

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."
-Thomas H. Huxley

"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
-Ayn Rand

"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same."
-Alexander Hamilton

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
-Thomas Hobbes

"I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine."
-Bertrand Russell

"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
-Charles A. Dana

"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself."
-Anthony Trollope

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."
-James Russell Lowell

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras."
-Margaret Truman

"No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them."
-William Gilmore Simms

"Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think."
-Alfred Austin

"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making."
-John Milton

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."
-Bethania McKenstry

"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions."
-Senator Patrick Leahy

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
-Edward Gibbon

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-William Blake

"Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions."
-Friedrich Nietzsche