Quotes About Opinions

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...

no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.

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

Se c'è tra noi chi voglia dissolvere questa Unione o cambiarne la forma repubblicana, lo si lasci indisturbato, a testimonianza della sicurezza con la quale si possono tollerare opinioni errate là dove la ragione è libera di combatterle.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it's all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style.

I confess the contrariness and mischievousness of his ideas but render our acquaintance the more attractive. I need the friction. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them—and I am only confirmed in mine.

AÈ™a se întâmpl? întotdeauna È™i o s? constaÈ›i mereu c? a vorbi È™i a avea p?reri duce numai la confuzie. Nu È›i-am mai spus-o? Ceea ce import? nu este câtuÈ™i de puÈ›in ce p?rere ai, ci numai s? È™tii dac? eÈ™ti sau nu om cinstit. Cel mai s?n?tos este s? n-ai nici un fel de p?rere È™i s?-È›i faci serviciul.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

As George J. Stigler said of some of his fellow Nobel Laureates, they "issue stern ultimata to the public on almost a monthly basis, and sometimes on no other basis.

public schools have increasingly become militant dispensers of indoctrination with fashionable avant-grade attitudes

High voter turnout, which some equate with a healthy democracy, has been in Nigeria (and in some other countries) an indication instead of a fever pitch of political polarization.

I like my shirts. - It's plaid. - There are no rules for shirts. Plaid is good. - Plaid is bad. Although, if you went with a Scottish plaid in wool, it might be okay. - I'm not dressing like some damned highlander, Mercedes. - And the lumberjack look is okay? - You don't like my shirt?

Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.

I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking about personal things like their feelings.

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown your inner voice. – Steve Jobs

The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. - C. JoyBel

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They're entitled to their opinions. They're not the enemy." "Who is the enemy?" "Censors.