Quotes on Opinion

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.