Opinion Quotes — Page 37

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.”

Opinion Society Owing

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.”

Opinion Improvement Memorial

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.”

Views Opinion

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.”

Faces Opinion

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

Strong Issues Opinion

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.”

Facts Opinion Prejudice

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.”

Believe Opinion Lips

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.”

Matter Politics Opinion

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.”

Law Opinion Branches

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.”

Opinion Individual Distrust

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”

Doubt Opinion Champion

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“One had rather have no opinion than a false one.”

Opinion

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