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Quotes About Opinion

Friend, take your focus off of what you think—or what others think about you—and embrace what the Father says. No doubt your self-esteem will automatically improve because God's opinion is the only one that really counts—forever.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Carried down my last number to the Advocate. They will not publish the letters I wish. So much for the freedom of that press.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
It may be that our society is only passing through a period of ugly transition, but the present evil has its root deep down in the social organization, and springs from a diseased public opinion.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~ Mark Twain
Classics are books that everybody talks about, and nobody reads.
~ Author unknown, early 1900s
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.
~ Bertrand Russell
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
There's no logical reason to put pumpkin in a cup of coffee.
~ Cindy Ott
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.
~ Grace Metalious
A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion.
~ Grantland Rice
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
~ Granville Hicks
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
~ Granville Hicks
Windbag Richard Brody at The New Yorker condemns the film as "obscenely regressive" and "ridiculously white." (I find The New Yorker obscenely progressive and ridiculously Jewish, but that's a topic for another day.)
~ Greg Johnson
Jade nodded. "My father didn't like the name, but my mother can be quite stubborn.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.
~ Gregory Benford
It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
~ Gregory Benford
the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
~ Gregory Benford
We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.
~ Gregory Dickow
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
~ Gregory Nunn
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
~ Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx "This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.
~ Groucho Marx
It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Una columna en el periódico, o un titular de portada, a veces influye más en el estado de ánimo de los jugadores que mi propia opinión. Así que tengo que ver qué titulares han sido publicados acerca de un jugador, y si tengo dos estrellas y hay tres titulares sobre uno de ellos, tendré que hablar con el jugador al que no le han dedicado ninguno.
~ Guillem Balagué
el Distrito Federal es mi ciudad favorita, amo esta ciudad y por eso puedo decir que está más fea que antes. Creo que es la ciudad más horrible del mundo. ¿Y sabe qué? Eso me gusta.
~ Guillermo Fadanelli