Quotes About Opinion

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

John Cougar Mellencamp - I didn't like him in the beginning. I liked some of the stuff around the 'Scarecrow' period. I go back and forth on him all the time, but I think he's a good artist. I don't know if he's a great artist or not, but he rose above his original level of achievement.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

I like Katy Perry. I like Kesha.

I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."

Knowledge has three degrees—opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second dialectic; of the third intuition. To the last I subordinate reason. It is absolute knowledge founded on the identity of the mind knowing with the object known.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their attention from the business before them to statues and pictures, and roofs curiously fretted, the usual embellishments of such places amongst the other Greeks.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Berpendapat tanpa berpengetahuan hukuman mati bagi seorang calon brahmana. Dia takkan mungkin jadi brahmana yang bisa dipercaya.

Apakah gunanya pendapat kalau hanya untuk diketahui sendiri?

Pendapat umum perlu dan harus diindahkan, dihormati, kalau benar. Kalau salah, mengapa dihormati dan diindahkan? Seorang terpelajar harus juga belajar berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi dalam perbuatan. Itulah memang arti terpelajar itu.

Memang bukan nyai sembarang nyai. Dia hadapi aku, siswa H.B.S, tanpa merasa rendah diri. Dia punya keberanian nyatakan pendapat. Dan dia sadar akan kekuatan pribadinya.

Apa sebabnya ketakutan Bapak Mahaguru? Bukankah itu juga pendapat sendiri? Dan apalah gunanya mengetahui, berpendapat, kemudian takut padanya? Lihatlah ini murid Bapa sudah bicara.