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The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Thoughts for the Cloister and Crowd, London, 1835, p. 21, quoted by Mill in "Liberty"
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Author: Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady")
Source: Mansfield Park (ch. XI)
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And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if
Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Author: Bible
Source: I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 21)
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Facts are cheels that winna ding,
An' downs be disputed.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: A Dream
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Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 1,173)
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With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 624)
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For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinion is by a wager.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Beppo (st. 27)
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His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of nature.
[Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae
putanda est.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 13, 30)
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Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (I, 545)
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As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.
Author: Elizabeth I
Source: Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle
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It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot
take care of itself.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Medical Essays (211)
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All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (II, 2, 58)
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Intolerant only of intolerance.
Author: I.S.S.G.
Source: in "Fraser's Mag.", Aug., 1863, in an article on Mr. Buckle in the East
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Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be
tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: in his first inaugural address
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Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Man Made of Money, in the "Wit and Opinions of Jerrold", p. 28
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Author: Robert F. Kennedy
Source: in a speech
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We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree
with us.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (347)
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Facts are stubborn things.
Author: Alain Rene Le Sage
Source: Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation)
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Author: Alain Rene Le Sage
Source: Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation)
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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two
hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays--Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers
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Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at
the expense of life.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Of Good and Evil (ch. XL)
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Opinion is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: quoted as the title of an Italian work
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He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne.
[Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne.]
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: Lettres Provinciales (II)
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Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is
opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais
l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: Pensees (art XXIV, 92)
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One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Author: Bertrand Russel
Source: None
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Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
Source: None
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Source: None
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Author: Tryon Edwards
Source: None
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You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
Author: W. S. Gilbert
Source: None
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
Author: G. C Lichtenberg
Source: None
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If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Author: Laurence J. Peter
Source: None
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: None
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Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Author: Lord Samuel
Source: None
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All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: None
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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Author: Elizabeth Drew
Source: None
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Author: Thomas Mann
Source: None
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