Quotes About Opinion

There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.