Opinion Quotes

Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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.

It were not best that we should all think alike it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Abraham Lincoln

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

James Russell Lowell

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.

Pascal

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

Mme. Jeanne Roland

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Three Spaniards four opinions.

Spanish Proverb

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Dean William R. Inge

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Laurence J. Peter

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

James Russell Lowell

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey

The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.

It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

Michel de Montaigne

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

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

William Butler Yeats

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

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

So many men so many opinions.

Terence

Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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.

It were not best that we should all think alike it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Abraham Lincoln

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

James Russell Lowell

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.

Pascal

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

Mme. Jeanne Roland

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Three Spaniards four opinions.

Spanish Proverb

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Dean William R. Inge

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Laurence J. Peter

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

James Russell Lowell

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey

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