(1915 quotes found)
“Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you”
Arab Proverb
“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
Aristotle
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.”
Wendell Phillips
“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.”
Colin Powell
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts”
Mark Twain
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny”
Bertrand Russell
