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Quotes About Opinion

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
~ William Drummond
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
~ Anthony Trollope
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
~ Betty Boothroyd
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
~ Friedrich Klopstock
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
~ David Hume
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
~ Samuel Johnson
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~ Voltaire
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
~ Henry Adams
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
~ Samuel Butler
Everyone to his taste.
~ French proverb
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
~ J. PetitSenn
Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
~ Leslie Stephen
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
~ Anonymous
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
For in art there is no such thing as a universal truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
Against abortion? Don't have one.
~ Author Unknown
And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
~ Ronald Reagan, 1980
Whether the apple is deemed a good sign or bad sign depends on what that person believes
~ Iyanla Vanzant
There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
~ J.D. Robb