Quotes About Opinion

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Il faudrait réactiver cette chose délicieuse qui consiste à réfléchir sans se croire obligé d'accrocher au bout de sa pensée une opinion... on est devenu un lecteur mou en réflexion, mais dur en opinion.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

My grandmother used to say, "Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.

The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line and I wasn't doing that.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

Instead of revealing the will of the people, election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.

Now but before a fool's opinion of himself," the brown man cried, "the Gods are powerless. Oh, yes, and envious, too!

But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.

If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

DOES THE PROGRESS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEND TO GIVE ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE OPINION OF NECESSITY (OR DETERMINISM) OVER THAT OF THE CONTINGENCY OF EVENTS AND THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL? NO. - ESSAY FOR THE ERANUS CLUB ON SCIENCE AND FREE WILL