OPINION QUOTES VI

quotations about opinion

False opinions cannot be corrected by fire or the sword.

EMPEROR JULIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Heretics

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Opinion! O opinion! How many men of slightest worth hast thou uplifted high in life's proud ranks?

EURIPIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Change of opinion is increase of knowledge.

URIEL ACOSTA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.

AMY REED

Crazy


Public opinion is no reformer; it has never corrected the errors, the follies, nor the vices of the human family. Public opinion is a conservative aristocrat, retaining its grasp upon the present, and subjecting the free inquirer after truth to obloquy and reproach.

CHARLES EVERETT TOOTHAKER

The Odd-fellow's Offering


People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


Opinion, that great fool, makes fools of all,
And once I feared her, till I met a mind,
Whose grave instructions philosophical
Toss'd it like dust upon a March strong wind.

NATHANIEL FIELD

"To My Loved Friend, Master John Fletcher, On His Pastoral"


We should never wed an opinion for better or for worse; what we take upon good grounds, we should lay down upon better.

JONATHAN SWIFT

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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No man can be convinced when he will not.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

WALTER LIPPMANN

Public Opinion

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It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally, and that, if possible, he should get the reputation of being well-to-do in the world.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Notebooks


Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra--the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

Spiritual Scientist


Opinion is a capricious tyrant to which many a freeborn man willingly binds himself a slave.

HORACE SMITH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Emerson in His Journals

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