Quotes About Opinion

There were a lot of other words that Clent used after this, mostly to describe his opinion of Mosca's conduct. None of them were profane, but all of them were long and highly specific, and Mistress Leap might as well have been a goose for all the sense she could make of them.

I never wanted to teach in my life.... I don't believe in teaching poetry at all, but that's what they want one to do. You see so many poems every week, you just lose all sense of judgment.

I'm no expert on American politics.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I'm afraid I have a very old guy opinion. You want customers raving about your brand? Sell them a good fucking product.

No, the one thing all IT people do have in common is this: They think they know better than the boss.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bill Brock, the former Tennessee senator and one-time head of the Republican Party said recently that many Americans choose their favorite channel (or website) not to get just the latest information but "to get the ammo to back up their previously formed opinions." And it was getting harder to separate opinion from fact.

People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument.

how much a thing means to one man and how little it means to another ain't the right way to look at a business matter.

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

The study of mental phenomena calls for the exercise of that faculty of the mind by which we consider a proposition from all sides and form an opinion in harmony with all the facts. It uses not only one's own experiences but the experiences of others as well as the current working facts in the case and is able to forecast the outcome of an adventure or the solution of a problem.

The egalitarianism that is the most offensive is the notion, whether embodied in opinion or law, that every way of behaving is as good as any other and that the man who stands apart by reason of his dignity, restraint, and discernment is somehow an Enemy of the People

Wilde was not a fan of pundits. They came on television to either confirm your narrative or piss you off, and either way, that wasn't healthy for anyone.

stopped her by raising his hand. "I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.

You do not have a right to an opinion. You have the right to an informed opinion. You do not have a right to be ignorant.

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!

No es cierto que se tenga derecho a dar cualquier opinión. Se tiene derecho a dar una opinión INFORMADA. Nadie tiene derecho a ser ignorante.

Infinite Jest' is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.

I regard Clarissa and In Search of Lost Time as the two most eminent of all novels, surpassing even Tolstoy and Dickens.