If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ambrose Bierce

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
Payne Stewart