Quotes About Opinion

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

In the choice of a wife, sundry men are of sundry minds. One looketh high as one that feareth no chips, saying that the oil that swimmeth on the top is the wholesomest. Another poreth in the ground, as dreading all dangers that happen in great stocks, alleging that the honey that lieth in the bottom is the sweetest.

Was it not at Bunker Hill that the soldiers were directed to reserve their fire till the attacking party had exhausted theirs? That is the way Jennie conducts an argument—when she argues at all, which is very seldom. She accepted every consideration I had offered against uniting with the Wheathedge church, and yet I knew her opinion was not changed; and somehow my own began to waver. I wonder how that method of arguing would work in the court-room. I mean to try it some time.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.

I'm no connoisseur of wines, but I know what's bad.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

Essentially, the Marx opinion created an "eyeball test" for in-court evaluation of forensic evidence, shifting the responsibility of exposing flawed expert testimony to defense attorneys—through the "crucible" of cross-examination—and relying on lay jurors to separate science from nonsense.

You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.

I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

True leadership requires the capacity to shape public opinion, not merely reflect it.

Silence may be golden," I said, "but it won't win many arguments. If you have something to say, don't keep your ideas locked up; unclench your jaws and set those thoughts free. And don't be afraid to interrupt, because that may be the only way you are going to be heard.

In Germany, belief that the American president can be counted on to do the right thing shrank from 86 percent under his predecessor to 11 percent under Trump. In France, the fall was from 84 percent to 14; in Japan, 74 to 24; in South Korea, 84 to 17.

True is what men believe, and they believe this of you.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

The cry used to be for 'tolerance,' by which we meant, 'We have very strong differences, but we will not let those be the cause of hatred or violence between us. Now it is something else, where all convictions are softened to second or third place while we all agree to enjoy the world as much as we can. But truth is not like conviction. Conviction might be a matter of personal opinion, but truth is like a great mountain, solid and immovable whether we like it or even acknowledge it.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald? Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here.

Gunther, like most white people, thought the idea of an innocent man on death row was absurd.