Quotes About Opinion

Poets and critics alike seek to convert opinion into knowledge, but this means opinion in the legal and not the public sense. What is it you know when you recognize a voice?

Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

I don't call fifty very old," said Miss Maudie tartly.

Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

As far as I could see, she had no opinion at all about anything that was not set directly in front of her (and in fact, she was extremely nearsighted).

I don't like CDs," he replies. "Why not?" "They're too shiny." Kaoru

As Menstruation and Menopause author Paula Weideger said in the 1970s, "The majority of doctors have an elevated opinion of their worth and an underdeveloped ability to respect their patients.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.

When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.

If you read anything I've written about Putin, heard anything I've said about Russia since I left in 2000, you'd know that I'm not Vladimir Putin's image consultant.

I love deliberately badly written books.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Wrong is for other people.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.