Quotes About Opinion

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

One man's meat is another's poison.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?

The public be damned.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.