Quotes About Opinion

My wife, she's a good Christian woman, and she supports the death penalty, and believe me, you can't find a better Christian

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.

Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viešoji nuomon? - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, k? žmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba grei?iau rodo jo likim?.

How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?

My practice is "nowhere", my opinion is here.

Let us... work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe...till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...

There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

L'opinione pubblica è un tiranno assai debole, paragonata alla nostra opinione personale. Ciò che determina o piuttosto indica il fato di un uomo è l'opinione che egli ha di se stesso.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation

mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.

I had now regained my liberty, said the stranger; but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people.

it was the universal opinion of all Mr Allworthy's family that he was certainly born to be hanged.

It is, I think, the opinion of Aristotle; or if not, it is the opinion of some wise man, whose authority will be as weighty when it is as old

Nothing is my last word on anything.

A fig for my opinion! If you fall in love with Mr. Osmond what will you care for that? Not much, probably. But meanwhile it has a certain importance. The more information one has about one's dangers the better. I don't agree to that—it may make them dangers. We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

I never congratulate any girl on marrying; I think they ought to make it somehow not quite so awful a steel trap.