Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

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 good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

The luxury of one's own opinion.

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

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 moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

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.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.