“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.”
“We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.”
“Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.”
“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
“Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
“Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.”
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.”
“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”
“When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.”
“It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.”
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
“I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.”
“People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.”
“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
“We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.”
“Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.”
“No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.”
“Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.”
“The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.”
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.”
“It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.”
“The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.”
“How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.”
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.”
“Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”