Quotes about Opinion

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!

Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism

In Ireland they put their children to fosterers: the rich sell, the meaner sort buying the alterage of their children; and the reason is, because in the opinion of the people, fostering has always been a stronger alliance than blood.Sir John Davieson Ireland.   

This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.