Opinion Quotes - page 3

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. (Serge Lang)

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

William Butler Yeats

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

David Hilbert

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.

Clarence Darrow

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Miloš Forman

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. (Alfred Austin)

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Søren Kierkegaard

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Alan Turing

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Voltaire

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. (Frank B. Kellogg)

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Arthur Henderson

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Elihu Root

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

Thomas Jefferson

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

William James

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