Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
—Mark Twain
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.
—Plato
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.
—Senator Patrick Leahy
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
—Thomas H. Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
—Virginia Woolf
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
—Walter Pater
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
—Unknown
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
—Charles McCabe
In order to be embarrassed, a person has to care about the opinions of others first.
—Colleen Hoover in Confess