Quotes about Opinion

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

preparation, and even your worthiness to live your dream. Their negative voices are always more than eager to offer an opinion. Often such disparaging commentary comes from those who have accomplished very little. They

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

I don't like message movies either.

M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

Freedom of belief is pernicious," Bellarmine wrote on another occasion. "It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.