Opinion Quotes

I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side – I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter – for that I have determined for myself.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Public discussion is helping to doom slavery. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

I value little my own opinions but I value just as little those of others.