Quotes About Opinion

A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.

La première fois qu'Aurélien vit Bérénice, il la trouva franchement laide. Elle lui déplut, enfin. Il n'aima pas comment elle était habillée.

The crowd has a way of being right.

According to Peirce] 'The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.' … nominalism denies the social altogether … 'the community is to be considered as an end in itself'… knowledge cannot depend on the inferences of single individuals … Logic is rooted in the social principle.

Een James Bond-boek is stom maar opwindend, terwijl een meesterwerk van de Vlaamse literatuur even stom maar daarbij ook nog vervelend is.

Usually what we believe is only someone else's opinion that we've accepted and incorporated into our own belief system.

John had said McKindless would be revealed through his library, but John was a bookseller; he formed his opinion of everyone through their books.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

Every philosophy is a façade-philosophy' – such is the hermit's judgement … Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding-place; every word is also a mask. (Beyond Good and Evil, 289)

That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.

For instance, if there is a difference of opinion with regard to science or genetics, it must be decided by the "leader." This is the necessary unavoidable consequence of the fact that, according to Marxist doctrine, you do not consider the possibility of dissent among honest people; either you think as I do, or you are a traitor and must be liquidated.

I write because it's a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don't understand. The act of writing a book gives me the same experience that I hope reading it gives readers. It forces me to sort through the various points of view on a given issue or situation and ultimately come to a conclusion. Doing that might not change my mind, but it almost always gives me a stronger sense of why my opinion is what it is—a question we rarely ask ourselves.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things- that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact.

I've always sort of wondered though: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

I've got a Don Baylor, J.T. said. California sucks this year. Ralph snickered. I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

That what one person sees as a difference of opinion can be, to the other person, a sign of great disrespect.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

Some said, John, print it, others said, Not so. Some said, It might do good, others said, No.