We are all more or less the slaves of opinion.
Opinion Quotes
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature. Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and […]
Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what ‘the stars foretell,’ avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable ‘verdict of history’ – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into […]
Even if we differ in principle… I know too well the texture of the human mind, and the slipperiness of human reason, to consider differences of opinion otherwise of form or feature. Integrity of views more than their soundness, is the basis of esteem.
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
It isn’t the facts that trouble mankind; it’s the opinions that are held about the facts.
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.
