A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Opinion Quotes
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame.
A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle… If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Opinions is a species of property – I am always desirous of sharing.
We are all more or less the slaves of opinion.
