Famous Quotes about Opinions (121 Quotations)

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

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

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

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…

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

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

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.