Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.