I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
“Here’s the key to understanding risk: it’s largely a matter of opinion.”
— Howard Marks
“I’m not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I’ve reached that state.”
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
—Voltaire
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
—Nikolai Gogol
There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
[Historic Christianity] provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion.
—J. Gresham Machen
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
—Oscar Wilde
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
—Heraclitus
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
—Thomas Jefferson
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
—Thomas Aquinas
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
—Thomas Jefferson
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
—Marcus Aurelius
The “sociable” man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering:
“There is something not right”
No matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.
—Carl Jung
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
—Plato
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
—Socrates
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
—Immanuel Kant
An argument never persuades anyone; it divides and embitters people. An argument influences a person’s opinion like a hammer influences a nail.
—Leo Tolstoy
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
—Marcus Aurelius
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
—Voltaire
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
—Voltaire
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.
—John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
—John Locke
People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.
—John Newton