Quotes About Opinion

But if that's the case, Anderson, then in my opinion God is a bugger. You can quote me on that.

I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

I didn't say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

I'm not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.

White: Well you surprise me. And you've come to what conclusions? Black: I aint. I'm still thinkin. White: Yes. Well, I'm not. Black: Things can change. White: No they cant. Black: You could be wrong. White: I dont think so. Black: But that aint somethin you have a lot of in your life. White: What isnt? Black: Being wrong. White: I admit it when I'm wrong. Black: I dont think so. White: Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

I no longer have an opinion about reality. I used to. Now I dont. The first rule of the world is that everything vanishes forever. To the extent that you refuse to accept that then you are living in a fantasy.

They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.

A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.

You are crazy! whispered Meggie. You're a total lunatic! But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. So what? All writers are lunatics!

but she did nothing to make her face prettier, since it was her opinion that beautiful women might be desired but were never respected, certainly not feared.

My point of view is fallacious!

The plural of anecdote isn't fact.