Quotes of Opinion - somelinesforyou

“ There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. ”

- Richard Darman

“ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”

- John Wilmot

“ I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate. The real teeth of journalism has been missing journalism out there. ”

- George Clooney

“ Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. ”

- B. F. Harris

“ Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. ”

- Epictetus

“ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ”

- Confucius

“ Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ”

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“ It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" — not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ”

- Paul Goodman

“ Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ”

- Charles Anderson Dana

“ It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. ”

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

“ The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ”

- Sara Teasdale

“ The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Science is what you know; philosophy what you don't know. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ Take heed lest passion swayThy judgment to do aught, which else free willWould not admit. ”

- John Milton

“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ How empty is theory in presence of fact! ”

- Mark Twain

“ The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. ”

- William Lyon Phelps
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