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Opinion is holding something to be provisionally true which you do not know to be false.
Saint Bernard (1090-1153) French churchman, scholar.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Balke (1757-1827) English Poet, artist.
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 wanted.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist, philosopher.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English critic.
It’s not that I don’t have opinions, rather that I’m paid not to think aloud.
I never offered an opinion till I was sixty, and then it was one which had been in our family for a century.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.
There is nothing a woman so dislikes as to have her old opinions quoted to her, especially when they confute new ones.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931)
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Lisa Alther (b.1944) American novelist.
It is clear that thought is not free is the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.
Hume.
A man’s opinions are generally of much more value that his arguments.
O.W. Holmes.
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
Wendell Phillips.
There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Daniel Webster.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
F.W.Robertson.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion left free to grapple with them.
Simms.
Opinions are stronger than armies. If they are founded in truth and justice, they will, in the end, prevail against the bayonets of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the charges of cavalry.
Lord Palmerston.
Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us.
Marcus Antoninus.
The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men., which is the chief wall of defense around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms.
Channing.
The greater part of men have no opinion, still fewer an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon reason.
Seume.
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
Turgot.
Our system of thought and opinion, is often only the history of our heart. Men do not so much will according to their reason, as reason according to their well.
Fichte.
Saint Bernard (1090-1153) French churchman, scholar.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Balke (1757-1827) English Poet, artist.
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 wanted.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist, philosopher.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English critic.
It’s not that I don’t have opinions, rather that I’m paid not to think aloud.
I never offered an opinion till I was sixty, and then it was one which had been in our family for a century.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.
There is nothing a woman so dislikes as to have her old opinions quoted to her, especially when they confute new ones.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson (1861-1931)
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Lisa Alther (b.1944) American novelist.
It is clear that thought is not free is the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.
Hume.
A man’s opinions are generally of much more value that his arguments.
O.W. Holmes.
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
Wendell Phillips.
There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Daniel Webster.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
F.W.Robertson.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion left free to grapple with them.
Simms.
Opinions are stronger than armies. If they are founded in truth and justice, they will, in the end, prevail against the bayonets of infantry, the fire of artillery, and the charges of cavalry.
Lord Palmerston.
Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us.
Marcus Antoninus.
The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men., which is the chief wall of defense around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms.
Channing.
The greater part of men have no opinion, still fewer an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon reason.
Seume.
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
Turgot.
Our system of thought and opinion, is often only the history of our heart. Men do not so much will according to their reason, as reason according to their well.
Fichte.
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