All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution
Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
~Winston Churchill
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
~By Vincent van Gogh
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
~John Jay Chapman
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
~George Bernard Shaw
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
~By Hubert Humphrey
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
~ Walter Pater
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the
~Proverb
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
~By Robert Peel
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
~By Ambrose Bierce
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
~Joseph Joubert
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
~By Ayn Rand
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
~Mme. Jeanne Roland
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
~By Benjamin Disraeli
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
~Marcus Antonius
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
~Thomas Carlyle
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
~Opinion quote Horace Mann
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
~ By Thomas Jefferson
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
~John Locke
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
~By Ivan Turgenev
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
~By Thomas Jefferson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
~By William Butler Yeats
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
~Carrie Chapman Catt