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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.
Thomas Szasz

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler

Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.
Henry S. Haskins

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
Henry S. Haskins

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi

We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
Mark Twain /Mark Twain in Eruption/