Quotes About Opinions

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.