Opinion Quotes - Page 44

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.