Opinions Quote by John Locke

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”

— John Locke

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established…

— George Bernard Shaw

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from…

— Anonymous

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

— Kin Hubbard

There's a thing about opinions... They are formulated over time. They tend to change with time, and you are going to change your mind…

— Kalki Koechlin

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own

— Cullen Hightower

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of…

— Adam Grant

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

— Michelle Obama

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

— Michel de Montaigne

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all…

— Francis Bacon