Opinion Quotes - Page 38

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.