In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today is La Fête de l'Opinion "Opinion Day". Here are 10 quotes about opinions:
We are not troubled by things, but by the opinions which we have of things. Epictetus
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Steve Jobs
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Booth Tarkington
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. Anthony Trollope
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. David Souter
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Bertrand Russell
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius
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