<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Opinion - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44972]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are as many opinions as there are experts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44957]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the queen of the world. [Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the queen of the world. [Lat., Della opinione regina del mondo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. [Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. [Fr., Il opine du bonnet comme un moine en Sorbonne.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerant only of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44945]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stubborn things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935]]></link><description><![CDATA[With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,  And for his false opinion pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44936]]></link><description><![CDATA[For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44939]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44941]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11675]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts  Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621</guid></item></channel></rss>