Quotes about Opinion

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!

Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism

In Ireland they put their children to fosterers: the rich sell, the meaner sort buying the alterage of their children; and the reason is, because in the opinion of the people, fostering has always been a stronger alliance than blood.Sir John Davieson Ireland.   

This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.