Opinion Quotes - Page 40

• If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Patriotic, People

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Impossible, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.126, Psychology Press

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Self, Approval Of Others

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.514, Penguin

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• I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

  John Jay Chapman

  Intelligent, Earth, Want

  John Jay Chapman, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1937). “John Jay Chapman and his letters ...”

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• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Children, Philosophy

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• Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rain, Sea, People

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.391

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Superstitions, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

  Phillips Brooks

  Change, God, Week

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Differences, Forgiving

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• The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fashion, Freedom, Majority

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• We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, People, Sensible

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• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

  William Hazlitt

  Public Opinion, Unjust, Capricious

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Generations, Vanishing

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.305

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• It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Book, Class

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill, March 28, 1923.

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• Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Greatness, Forever

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• For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  "Collected Works of Francis Bacon".

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• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Men, Humanity

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• "Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.

  Karl Pearson

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mean, Men, Flattery

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Cold

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• Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Self, White Man

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Views, People

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• Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Suffering

  Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, founders.archives.gov. June 18, 1779.

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