Opinion Quotes

If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Nowadays, “public opinion” is more smoothly and easily ventriloquized. I am sure you have had the experience of making up your own mind on a question and then discovering, on the evening news of the same day, that only 23.6 percent of people agree with you. Ought you to be depressed or disconcerted by this […]

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

You finally have to realize that what’s really important is your own life. If I’m going to use as criteria for my happiness someone else’s opinion of what I’m doing and their rejection of what I think is good, then I’m going to be very unhappy.