Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it an remain at rest.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do — they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge, and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so turbulent; but the struggle of belief in opinions.
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.[In allen Urteilen, wodurch wir etwas für schön erklären, verstatten wir keinem anderer Meinung zu sein.]
If you want to find out your real opinion of anyone, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him.
