Quotes About Opinion

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinions who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

— Wendell Phillips

It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.

— Joseph Geobbels

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

— Mark Twain

It is a difference of opinion that makes horses races.

— Mark Twain

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

— William Congreve

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

— John Stuart Mill

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

— Herbert Spencer

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

— Charles F. Kettering

I am free of all prejudice.  I hate everyone equally.

— W. C. Fields

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

— Voltaire

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

— Joseph Joubert

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

— George Christoph Lichtenberg

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

— William Shakespeare

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

— Thomas Hobbes

I hate to go on tryin’ your patience like this—but—well, I’m either dead right or I’m crazy.

— Jefferson, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, screenplay by Sidney Buchman

One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

— Oswald Dykes