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
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
—Bernard Baruch
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.
—Bertrand Russell
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
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
—Charles A. Dana
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
—Elbert Hubbard
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
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people—we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
—Eric Hoffer
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
I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don't always agree with them.
—George Bush
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
—John Milton
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.
—Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
—Lawana Blackwell
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
—Mark Twain