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Quotes About Opinion

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.
~ Jimmy Swaggart
I prefer men to cauliflowers
~ Virginia Woolf
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
~ Ken Robinson
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
~ Tim Pawlenty
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.
~ Ayn Rand
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
~ William Dean Howells
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
~ Jonathan Swift
I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.
~ George Q. Cannon
Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
~ Billy Rose
The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
~ J. William Fulbright
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
~ Jane Austen
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
~ Doris Lilly
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
~ Irving Kristol
Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
~ Neal Stephenson
the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is just that — according to some who style themselves in the know — you are destitute.
~ Neal Stephenson
All birds are bastards.
~ Neal Stephenson
Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultures thrived and expanded while others failed. It was a view implicitly shared by nearly everyone but, in those days, never voiced.
~ Neal Stephenson
Jake's opinion is based on a theology I do not agree with. But like a lot of theologies it can do duty as a cracked mirror or a smudged lens through which we might be able to glimpse things that are informative.
~ Neal Stephenson
No intelligent person in Blue believes that, of course.
~ Neal Stephenson
Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all). I use the Humiliation
~ Ned Vizzini
The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson