Quotes about Opinions

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.

Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man.  But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well.  For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly.