Opinions Quotes
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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.
Ezra Pound
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Robert Wilkie
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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.
Bart Ehrman
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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.
Bradley Horowitz
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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!
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Gautama Buddha