The most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of the appropriate facts.
Opinion Quotes
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.
When we throw off the yoke of public opinion, it is seldom for the purpose of rising above it, but nearly always to fall below.
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, […]
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.
