Opinions Quotes

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations int...

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin...

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barri...

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast...

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole t...

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in ...

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...

There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'othe...

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manne...

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on t...

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I ...

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas b...

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best...

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statisti...

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even ...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, the...

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They de...

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself....

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, ...

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for...

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all...

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your be...

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never ...

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics ...

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his ...

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...

The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one si...

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

A second marked characteristic of the Liberal in debate with the conservative is the tacit premise t...

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to b...

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'di...

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring th...

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a va...

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: n...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinio...

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, in...

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported...

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-de...

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowled...

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think ot...

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote t...

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but ...

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another beca...

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience ...

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts...

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held conce...

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He ...

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends mo...

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the in...

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...