Opinion Quotes - Page 27

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

I was always opinionated.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.