Opinion Quotes

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Virginia Woolf

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Marshall McLuhan

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Aleister Crowley

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Bernard Baruch

It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Paul Goodman

I sometimes thinkHis critical judgement is so exquisiteIt leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

Christopher Fry, The Dark is Lig

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Bertrand Russell

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Warren Buffett

To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

George Earle Buckle

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain