I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

—Bethania McKenstry

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

—Virginia Woolf

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.

 —Mark Twain

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

—Elbert Hubbard

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

 —Charles A. Dana

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

 —Francis Jeffrey

Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

—John Milton

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

 —Thomas M. Huxley

Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

 —Lawana Blackwell

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