Quotes About Opinion

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

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Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.