As many men, so many opinions. [ Terence ]
So many heads, so many opinions. [ Ter ]
The opinions of men are fallible. [ Ovid ]
Happy opinions are the wine of the heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions. [ Zimmermann ]
We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions. [ Whately ]
To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. [ Buckle ]
Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge. [ John Ruskin ]
Imitation forms our manners, our opinions, our very lives. [ John Weiss ]
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. [ Pope ]
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. [ Colton ]
He who is master of all opinions tan never be the bigot of any. [ W. R. Alger ]
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. [ Coleridge ]
Stay at home in your mind, - don't recite other people's opinions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A man's passions, tastes, and opinions are discovered by his admirations. [ C. Nodier ]
Characters never change. Opinions alter, - characters are only developed. [ Disraeli ]
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. [ Chatfield ]
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. [ Glanvill ]
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]
The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. [ Hazlitt ]
A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. [ Joubert ]
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. [ Disraeli ]
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. [ Hamerton ]
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. [ Johnson ]
Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. [ Montaigne ]
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought and of elevated opinions. [ George Dawson ]
Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. [ Cicero ]
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. [ Glanvill ]
To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words. [ Descartes ]
The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion. [ Johnson ]
There are opinions which come from the heart, and whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. [ Joubert ]
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. [ Bishop Mant ]
Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. [ Billings ]
Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. [ Chatfield ]
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]
Stupid people and uneducated people do not care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. [ William Black ]
The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. [ Montaigne ]
It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us. [ Joubert ]
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually can become right merely by their multitude. [ Ruskin ]
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds. [ Chateaubriand ]
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. [ George Eliot ]
It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain. [ La Bruyere ]
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. [ Montaigne ]
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 ]
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. [ Bacon ]
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. [ Bovee ]
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! [ Swift ]
All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]
A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]
All our opinions, sentiments, principles, prejudices, religious beliefs, are really but the result of birthplace: how different would they be, had we been born and reared at the antipodes of our respective lands. [ De Finod ]
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]
All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]