Opinion Quotes

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Mark Twain

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

William Hazlitt

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

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Booth Tarkington

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

G. W. F. Hegel

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes