Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change
like a healthy tree.
-- Irving Batcheller
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is
almost omnipotent.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American
Preacher, Orator, Writer
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social
existence what oil is to machines: one does not go
up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one
applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that
one has to know.
-- Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German
Critic, Philosopher
The
man who never alters his opinion is like standing
water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British
Poet, Painter
