Opinion Quotes - Page 18

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

I think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest groups? Why should an antiwar protestor be so concerned about her dietary identity? The political opinions of vegetarians and meat-eaters are, after all, equally important. And what does it tell us about vegetarians that it would never occur to meat-eaters to carry a sign that reads "Pacifist Pork Chop Lover for Peace" or "Backyard Rib Barbecuer for International Nuclear Disarmament"?

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.