Quotes about Opinions

Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78

Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.

So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. —BLAISE PASCAL

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I am generally short and sweet—or short and sour, according as it may be and as opinions vary—