#Opinion Quotes

“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument”

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

“Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.”

“Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

“Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.”

“But fish not with this melancholy baitFor this fool gudgeon, this opinion.”

“Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.”

“What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”

“We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”

“To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.”

“You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.”

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

“Your reputation is none of your business.”

“We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.”

“What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.”

“I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.”

“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.”

“These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.”

“We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”

“I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.”

“I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.”

“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”

“Every reform was once a private opinion.”

“Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.”

“I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.”

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

“Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.”

“Politics is applesauce.”

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

“I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”

“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.”

“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”

“Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.”

“Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.”

“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”

“An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?”

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

“There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.”

“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”

“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”

“The same facts impress us differently.”

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