The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
Francis Wright

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

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

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou

The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
Jane Byrne

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Maimonides

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells