Quotes About Opinions

Reality itself is whatever we contend with when we are striving to survive and reproduce. A lot of that is other beings, their opinions of us, and their communities. And that's that.

Those well positioned (and this is a great danger of moving up) have used their current competence—their cherished opinions, their present knowledge, their current skills—to stake a moral claim to their status. In consequence, they have little motivation to admit to error, to learn or change—and plenty of reason not to.

he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.

En resolución, únicamente donde los ciudadanos piensan cada uno sus pensamientos, podremos esperar ponernos alguna vez de acuerdo, al paso que donde todos piensan a una no hay acuerdo posible en las opiniones, por la sencilla razón de que nadie opina y todos tienen uno o varios magistrados que se encargan de pensar por ellos.

La fe es la antítesis del fanatismo. La firmeza del genio es una suprema dignidad del propio Ideal; la falta de creencias sólidamente cimentadas convierte al mediocre en fanático. La fe se confirma en el choque con las opiniones contrarias; el fanatismo teme vacilar ante ellas e intenta ahogarlas.

My opinions were formed by books, and I know only what men have brought to light; I know nothing of the things that remain hidden, that have not been written about.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

When I consider the question, whether there are such persons in the world as those we call witches? my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions; or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as witchcraft; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it.

Sir Roger . . . told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

There is a sure rule for judging books just as there is for judging men: it is enough to know by whom they are loved, and by whom they are hated.

When someone told Mark Twain that Andrew Carnegie's money was tainted, he said, it sure is—'tain't yours and 'tain't mine.

I am not a Federalist," he declared in 1789, "because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

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

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

Les opinions subjectives et les sentiments n'ont aucune valeur. La vérité est seulement dans les faits.

I don't care if Spielberg directed it.

I don't care if Spielberg directed

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

The discoveries of science have proved that the opinions concerning a firmament above, and a flat earth beneath, are completely inaccurate; but faith delights more in sublimity than truth; it soars far above science in its discoveries, and holds accuracy in contempt.