There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and... →
Walter Bagehot
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Daisy Bates
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... →
Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions... →
Georg Cantor