Quotes About Opinion

Yeah, well, friends don't let friends drive Hondas.

Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

Socrates too thought that living according to the opinions of others was an illness. But he did not urge men to look for a source for producing their own unique opinions, or criticize them for being conformists. His measure of health was not sincerity, authenticity or any of the other necessarily vague criteria for distinguishing a healthy self. The truth is the one thing most needful; and conforming to nature is quite different from conforming to law, convention or opinion.

People found that Freuds know thyself led them to the couch, where they emptied their tank of the compressed fuel, which was intended to power them on their flight from opinion to knowledge.

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

when he wanted her opinion, he would give it to her.

proclaimed a predictably democratic unwillingness to be disagreed with, and used that unwillingness to pull down the entire house.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

The gentlemen would like to know if'- he cleared his throat- 'that boom was as bloody brilliant as they thought it was.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.

Can't talk now. Someone on the internet is wrong.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

If you ask me my opinion, if you're a rapper in this game, you oughta have a license to be able to carry a weapon.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

I hate kitten heels; they're useless. Either wear heels that are dangerous, or don't wear them at all.

I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.