<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Opinions - 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[It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66023]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44994]]></link><description><![CDATA[One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991]]></link><description><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44985]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</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[My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33018]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item></channel></rss>