“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
“Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”
“I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.”
“No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”
“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”
“Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.”
“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.”
“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”
“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
“Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.”
“The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.”
“Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.”
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”
“There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.”
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.”
“He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
“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!”
“Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.”
“I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”
“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...”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“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.”
“There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.”
“People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the”
“A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.”
“It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”