Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931 at the latest had it not been that the Federal Reserve followed a policy which led to bank failures, widespread bank failures, and led to a reduction in the quantity of money.

The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.

The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

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.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings.

The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition

The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The First Amendment does not extend to corporations. It's a U.S. government thing. Companies can shut speech down all they want. But the thing is this is destructive. This is discriminatory. And what they're telling themselves is they're making a much more peaceful environment. "We are creating a much more conducive and productive and peaceful environment," when they're not. They're suppressing opinion. They are inflicting their own world view and demanding that it be agreed with and acceded to. And if it's not, you get fired.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

The fundamental problem is that the gap in educational achievement, which is a key in our technological economy, is due in my opinion - and the opinion of many, including Arne Duncan, our secretary of education - to the fact that the families of the poor who are not very educated are not talking to their children, interacting with their children, insisting they do their homework and so on.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

the IAEA illegally insisted on politicizing the Iranian nation's nuclear case, but today, because of the resistance of the Iranian nation, the issue is back to the agency. And I officially announced that, in our opinion, the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed and has turned into an ordinary agency matter.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

The luxury of one's own opinion.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.