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Quotes about opinions
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. (Acton Lord)
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. (Acton Lord)
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. (Acton Lord)
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. (Acton Lord)
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. (Acton Lord)
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. (Acton Lord)
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. (Acton Lord)
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (Acton Lord)
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. (Acton Lord)
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (Acton Lord)
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. (Acton Lord)
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. (Acton Lord)
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. (Acton Lord)
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. (Acton Lord)
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. (Acton Lord)
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. (Acton Lord)
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Acton Lord)
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. (Acton Lord)
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. (Acton Lord)
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. (Acton Lord)
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. (Acton Lord)
What you think of me is none of my business. (Acton Lord)
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. (Acton Lord)
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. (Acton Lord)
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. (Acton Lord)
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