Opinions Quotes
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I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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You have two choices in life - you can dissolve into the main stream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. Don’t be so concerned with the opinions of others; those who follow the quiet, creative voice from within are both fortunate and correct.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.
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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
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The opinions of my friends can be an important model for discovery. We want to create a platform so that the knowledge in people's heads flows onto the Web for the benefit of others.
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The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers, without the Authority of the Commonwealth, maketh not their opinions Law, be they never so true.
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It’s like what some Episcopalians say about themselves today: get four in a room and you’ll find five opinions.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
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[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!
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I'm totally open to outside opinions and criticism.
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Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
