You think, because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times… that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far otherwise; it is known that you have no opinion: You are measured by your silence and found wanting. You have no oracle to utter, […]
Opinion Quotes
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; […]
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is is almost omnipotent.
I would like to be allowed to admire a man’s opinion as I would his dog without being expected to take it home with me.
Flop, v. Suddenly to change one’s opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticized as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change.
The matter does not appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.
