True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.
Opinion Quotes
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.
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame.
A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
