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.
What matters is not the utterance of opinions. What matters is the confrontation of opinions in debate… We have the substance of liberty… when the wise man can increase his wisdom by hearing the judgment of his peers.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. (Marquis of Halifax)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but that they are not already common.
Within the last few decades, in countries like Britain or the United States, the literary intelligentsia has grown large enough to constitute a world in itself. One important result of this is that the opinions which a writer feels frightened of expressing are not those which are disapproved of by society as a whole. To […]
We suffer more from our opinions that we do from the events themselves.
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
