Opinion Quotes - Page 37

• He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

  Tryon Edwards

  Change, Truth, Mistake

  Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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• ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Should

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• Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Religious, Kings

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Independent, Issues

  "Language and Politics". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1988.

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• I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

  Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

  Inspirational, Work, Long

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• Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Business, Giving

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.38, Penguin

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• I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Change, Fans, Matter

  "Stephen Colbert, The Next Ronald Reagan? Satirical Political Career Parallels Former President’s" by Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

  Angelina Jolie

  Change, Self, World

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• Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Courage, Mean, Names

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• Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Washington Irving (1866). “The Works of Washington Irving ...: Oliver Goldsmith; The sketch book”

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• If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

  Gelett Burgess

  Change, Years, Age

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• The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the microscopist? Here is my opinion. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to Think with the eyes and see with the brain. Deep revelations into the nature of living things continue to travel on beams of light.

  Daniel Mazia

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
  The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
  The three most important are - 'If you please'
  The two most important are - 'Thank You'
  And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

  Denis Waitley

  Leadership, Two, Important

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• The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

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• To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Taken, Abortion, Age

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• It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

  Winston Churchill

  Acceptance, Government, Risk

  Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

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• The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

  Barbara Cubin

  Apology, Political, President

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• Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Thinking, Attachment

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• The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 2014.

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• Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

  William Godwin

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Common Sense, Community

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• As with the bud, so with the blossom. A boy is the only thing known from which a man can be made. I hope that we as parents are teaching our children that they are the sons and daughters of God, and that they have the capacity to become like him. It was the old Edinburgh weaver who prayed, 'O God, help me to hold a high opinion of myself.' Likewise I would counsel young people to hold a high opinion of themselves, to remember who they really are, and to put their faith in their Heavenly Father.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

  William Hazlitt

  True Friend, Real, Errors

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.114

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