opinion quotes

• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Bertrand Russell) [fear/opinion/opinion]
• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/opinion/character]
• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. (Joseph Addison) [opinion/more/nature/instinct]
• Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion. (Hannah Arendt) [process/discussion/opinion]
• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. (Francis Bacon) [opinion/opinion]
• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (Henry Ward Beecher) [opinion/opinion]
• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. (Walter Benjamin) [opinion/press/attitude]
• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake) [opinion/water/mind]
• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. ( Napoleon I) [opinion]
• A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. (Warren Buffett) [opinion]
• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Edmund Burke) [opinion]
• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. (Edmund Burke) [opinion/silense & noise]
• If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. (Samuel Butler) [opinion]
• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. (Samuel Butler) [willpower/opinion]
• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Thomas Carlyle) [opinion/minority]
• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. (Thomas Carlyle) [opinion]
• Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? (Thomas Carlyle) [opinion/follow/money/influence]
• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. (Dale Carnegie) [willpower/opinion]
• There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. (Winston Churchill) [thing/opinion/opinion]
• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. (Marcus Cicero) [intelligence/virtue/opinion/nature]
• No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. (Marcus Cicero) [opinion]
• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. (Marcus Cicero) [people/being/opinion/desire]
• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. (Charles Caleb Colton) [opinion/food]
• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points. (Aleister Crowley) [enthusiasm/opinion/matter/absurd]
• What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. (Benjamin Disraeli) [opinion]
• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. (Benjamin Disraeli) [opinion]
• Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. (Albert Einstein) [perfection/opinion/age]
• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. (Albert Einstein) [opinion/time/knowledge/rest]
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age. (Albert Einstein) [perfection/opinion/age]
• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. (George Eliot) [take/position/opinion]
• The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [measure/leader/opinion]

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