Opinion Quotes

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Jeane Platiere

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Will Rogers

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Will Rogers

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

John Keats

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

W. S. Gilbert

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

David H. Souter

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Oscar Wilde

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Wendell Phillips

American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert Humphrey

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Phillips Brooks

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

John Morley

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Edward F. Halifax

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Napoleon Bonaparte

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Alexander Pope

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Thomas Carlyle

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Thomas Carlyle