Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
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