Opinion Quotes - Page 20

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

If you want to get attacked, have an opinion.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.