Quotes about Opinion
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)
— William Faulkner
The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn't make a difference of fact somewhere; and it seeks to determine the meaning of all differences of opinion by making the discussion hinge as soon as possible upon some practical or particular issue.
— William James
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
— William James
Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
— Les Brown
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
— Les Brown
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
— Marianne Williamson
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
— Elbert Hubbard
always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
— Mortimer Adler
Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.
— Al Gore
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
— John Wycliffe
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.
— Thomas Jefferson