Opinion Quotes - Page 27

• Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Public Opinion, Worst

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, School, Mean

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• [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Minorities, Taught

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• As of now, ALL your opinions are rejected." - Ichigo

  Tite Kubo

  Rejected, Ichigo

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• Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sun, Fitting, If Then

  Emily Dickinson, “Opinion Is A Flitting Thing”

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• Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, Ifs

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• The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

  Libba Bray

  Gossip, Wish, May

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• The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Dwarves

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• Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting out something completely unpalatable?" she asked, irritation flickering through her. "Vampires aren't supposed to be real. And how come you had to be a cute vampire? You should be a dog. All evil, vile people should look as ugly as they are inside." "We aren't ev--" Decker halted his denial, and then did something she hadn't yet seen him do and lifted his lips in a very rare-and in her opinion, totally inappropriate-grin as he asked, "You think I'm cute?

  Lynsay Sands

  Cute, Dream, Dog

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• The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Angel

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Had Enough, Hagrid

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• It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Cowboy, Thinking

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• To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Class, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.97, Psychology Press

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• When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Water, World

  Mark Twain, Dixon Wecter, Mary Mason Fairbanks (1949). “Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks”, San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library

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• I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Winning, Risk

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Firsts, Aspect

  Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Clever, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.29, Om Books International

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• We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

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• She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.

  Robin McKinley

  Kings, Queens, Thinking

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Deerskin”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Flirting, Law

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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• Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

  Heather Graham

  Dog, Children, Personal Opinions

  Heather Graham (2009). “Dust to Dust”, p.27, MIRA

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• Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

  Anna Godbersen

  Thinking, Faces, Mystery

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• When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, People, Concerned

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2011

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