Quotes about Opinion

To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'

Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.