Quotes About Opinion

Passion, rather than logic, often drove public discourse.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.' And above all, you must be honest with yourself.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous

You must not suppose that I would like you to profess religion without possessing it. A hypocrite is in my opinion one of the most detestable of beings. my opinion is, that every one should honestly and carefully investigate the Bible; and if he can believe it to be the word of God, to follow its teachings." - Brevet Major Thomas J. Jackson (1 March 1851)

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

Opinion was then expressed that the fifteen thousand men who could make successful assault over that field had never been arrayed for battle; but he was impatient of listening, and tired of talking, and nothing was left but to proceed.

The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.

Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

People don't like seeing being afraid to express an opinion and seeing their neighbors dragged away to prison camps. You'd think that would be obvious enough, wouldn't you? But governments—here, anyway—have always seemed unable grasp it. That's what happens when you can't see further than short-term expediency.

The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

cuando respondemos de modo visceral a un asunto, es tentador suponer que simplemente sabemos lo que debe ser la verdad, sin siquiera tener que considerar los argumentos opuestos.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Bad science, maybe… but personally gratifying.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical

Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion.