We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
La Rochefoucauld – Sense, Opinion
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Goethe – Opinion, Belief
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
Goethe – Opinion
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw – Opinion
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher – Opinion
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.
Walter Bagehot – Opinion
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero – Liberalism, Opinion
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin – Opinion & apparatus
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin – Opinion
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Guillaume Apollinaire – Opinion, Idea
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry Brooks Adams – Opinion
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli – Character, Opinion
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
