Quotes About Opinion

You want my honest opinion?" she says. I've already heard too many, but she goes ahead: "LaVaughn, I like you for being uppity. That's partly why we're here. Right?" "Huh?" I ask her. "Here in this room we're obligated to be uppity. That's our purpose here. We're supposed to change. Those friends of yours can't appreciate you. They don't know how.

People are easily deceived—their good and kindly hearts believe it all implicitly, without ever remembering the rule about hearing both sides before we form an opinion.

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

Je le dis ouvertement : je suis "moyennement démocrate'' et je veux bien effeuiller la marguerite démocratique. En Suisse, j'aurais pu l'être passionnément ; aux États-Unis, un peu; en France, pas du tout.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are contentThat he held the proper opinions for the time of year;When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Lo único sensato por parte de un crítico es permanecer en silencio frente a las obras que considera francamente malas, mientras defiende vigorosamente las que cree buenas, sobre todo si estas son ignoradas o menospreciadas por el público.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man

And yet the wise are of opinion that wherever man is, the dark powers who would feed his rapacities are there too, no less than the bright beings who store their honey in the cells of his heart, and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither, and that they encompass him with a passionate and melancholy multitude.

I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops, above all upon that chambermaid face. They might have looked timeless, Remeses the Great, but not the chambermaid, that old maid history. I spit! I spit! I spit!

Opinion is the enemy of the artist because it arms his uninspired moment against his inspiration.

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia