Quotes about Opinion
There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.
— Winston Churchill
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
— Hippocrates
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
— Mark Twain
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
— Joseph Heller
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
— Martin Van Buren
Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.
— Colleen Coble
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
— James Madison
I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'
— Bill Bailey
Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.
— Philip Yancey
C. S. Lewis shocked many people in his day when he came out in favor of allowing divorce, on the grounds that we Christians have no right to impose our morality on society at large. Although he would continue to oppose divorce on moral grounds, he maintained the distinction between morality and legality.
— Philip Yancey
Andy Rooney, the late commentator on the 60 Minutes television show, once said, "I've decided I'm against abortion. I think it's murder. But I have a dilemma in that I much prefer the pro-choice to the pro-life people. I'd much rather eat dinner with a group of the former.
— Philip Yancey
Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.
— Dennis Prager