It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

18.

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

19.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

21.

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

22.

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

Charles A. Dana

23.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

24.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

25.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

26.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

27.

You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

28.

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

31.

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

32.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

33.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

34.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

36.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

37.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

38.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

39.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

42.

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

44.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren