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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell
By reiteration chiefly.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
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He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
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Them's my sentiments, tew.—WILL CARLETON, The Schoolmaster's Guests
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.—THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan
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Opinions is a species of property I am always desirous of sharing.—CHARLES LAMB
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We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.—LA ROUCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
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Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
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The principal thing is for all Americans to find a way to hang on to what our forefathers called liberty. Conservative or radical, you have the right to any opinion you like—that's inherent in Americanism. Free opinion is one of the blessings of our Constitution.—MAURY MAVERICK, Blood & Ink
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.—WALTER PATER, The Renaissance
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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change, and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.—PLATO, Laws
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Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish.—Proverb
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He that seeks a' opinions, comes ill speed.—Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.—Proverb
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I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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Fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
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Has it ever occurred to you that a man with an open mind must be a bit of a scoundrel? . . . I like a man who makes up his mind once for all as to what's right and what's wrong and then sticks to it.—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
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"That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken.—SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
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Them's my sentiments.—THACKERAY, Vanity Fair
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I agree with no man's opinions. I have some of my own.—TURGENIEV, Fathers and Sons
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It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.—CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, My Summer in a Garden
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The machinery for weighing or measuring the popular will from week to week, or month to month has not been, and is not likely to be, invented.—LORD BRYCE, The American Commonwealth
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Public opinion's always in advance of the Law.—GALSWORTHY, Windows
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It is now a commonplace that the dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.—BURTON J. HENDRICK,
Bulwark of the Republic
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That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.—THOMAS H. HUXLEY, Universities, Actual and Ideal
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.—SCHOPENHAUER
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You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.—WOODROW WILSON
