Quotes About Opinion

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

They went to school, apparently, to learn to say over and over again, regardless of where they were, what had already been said too often. They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

There's nothing wrong with seeking the opinion of people you trust. Only an idiot thinks he's so smart he can't benefit from input from others. Ben Kincaid

I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course Solo

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)

Su voz sonaba tan débil como una voz de muñeca, como sonaría cualquier voz de persona adulta que tuviese que hablar, no en contra de la opinión de sus oyentes, sino en contra de unas mentes llenas de ideas preconcebidas

might not know art but they knew what they liked

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

Proust cookies. It was literally all he knew of Proust, though he'd once had to listen to someone's lengthy argument that Proust had either described madeleines incorrectly or been describing something else entirely.

I know Quine, by the way. Real asshole.

Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God's satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.

But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.