OPINION QUOTES VII

quotations about opinion

Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable.

PETER BARLOW

Second report addressed to the directors and proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway company, founded on an inspection of, and experiments made on the Liverpool and Manchester railway


A man should change his opinion as often as he finds it wrong.

ROBERT CARY

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

THOMAS MORE

Utopia

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

AMY REED

Crazy


A great faction is many persons, yet but one party; and that is but one opinion: such a faction is but one man, in point of judgment. One free-spirited man is, in this particular, equal to a whole faction.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well-supported in logic and argument than others.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

American Atheist Magazine, winter 1998-1999

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We want at least a modicum of intellectual honesty, and the man who shuffles his opinions in order to match ours is seen through quickly. We want none of him.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

EPICTETUS

Fragments

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Remember that all is opinion.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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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"


Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

WOODROW WILSON

address to the Associated Press, April 20, 1915

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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


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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook H", Aphorisms

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A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.

JAMES MADISON

Federalist No. 10, November 22, 1787

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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

JOHN STUART MILL

Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government

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There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

ANTON CHEKHOV

The Mill

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