Quotes About Opinion

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Everything after Star Wars is shit.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

for He could not have reminded those who witnessed His works, and heard Him preach, of all the prophets in turn, unless He had comprehended them all in His one person. The very diversity of opinion respecting Him, therefore, showed that a greater than Elias, or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, had appeared.

The masses are asses.

Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs.

For it is an observation, as true as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

however inclined we might be to insist upon an unbounded complaisance in the Executive to the inclinations of the people, we can with no propriety contend for a like complaisance to the humors of the legislature. The latter may sometimes stand in opposition to the former, and at other times the people may be entirely neutral. In either supposition, it is certainly desirable that the Executive should be in a situation to dare to act his own opinion with vigor and decision.

What to me is truly frightful is not the quality of what everyone agrees on, but the very fact of universal agreement.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

There still remains, to mortify a wit,The many-headed monster of the pit.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; Call Imperfection what thou fancy'st such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,(9) Yet cry, If Man's unhappy, God's unjust; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there: Snatch from his hand the balance(10) and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD!

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. A Muse by these is like a mistress used, This hour she's idolized, the next abused; While their weak heads, like towns unfortified, 'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Ask them the cause; they're wiser still they say; And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day.

Authors are partial to their wit

He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ.

But always think the last opinion right.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it.