OPINION QUOTES VI

quotations about opinion

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Heretics

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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

introduction, Sceptical Essays

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Change of opinion is increase of knowledge.

URIEL ACOSTA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Opinion! O opinion! How many men of slightest worth hast thou uplifted high in life's proud ranks?

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Opinion, that great fool, makes fools of all,
And once I feared her, till I met a mind,
Whose grave instructions philosophical
Toss'd it like dust upon a March strong wind.

NATHANIEL FIELD

"To My Loved Friend, Master John Fletcher, On His Pastoral"


People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Public opinion is no reformer; it has never corrected the errors, the follies, nor the vices of the human family. Public opinion is a conservative aristocrat, retaining its grasp upon the present, and subjecting the free inquirer after truth to obloquy and reproach.

CHARLES EVERETT TOOTHAKER

The Odd-fellow's Offering


Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.

AMY REED

Crazy


If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

WALTER LIPPMANN

Public Opinion

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No man can be convinced when he will not.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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We should never wed an opinion for better or for worse; what we take upon good grounds, we should lay down upon better.

JONATHAN SWIFT

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to Leo Baeck, 1953

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

PATRICK LENCIONI

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team


Let all differences of opinion touching errors, or supposed errors, of the head or heart on the part of any in the past, growing out of these matters, be at once and forever in the deep ocean of oblivion buried.

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS

Alexander H. Stephens in Public and Private