Opinion Quotes - Page 8

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

A drunk tongue is an honest one in my opinion.

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.