Opinions Quotes

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.”

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”

“We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.”

“He ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions.”

“Heresy is the foe of countenance.”

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

“I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”

“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.”

“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

“Outside of these, he should listen to no one, pursue the thing resolved on, and be steadfast in his resolutions. He who does otherwise is either overthrown by flatterers, or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into contempt.”