Opinion Quotes
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
If you build a person without any bones in him he may look fair enough to the eye, but he will be limber and cannot stand up; and I consider that evidence is the bones of an opinion.
I say that [if] you never take the trouble to find out which side is right or wrong you have no right to express an opinion. You are not fit to vote. You should not be allowed to vote.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. ?
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Maybe it’s stupid to like something just because everyone else likes it, but if you ask me, it’s even stupider to dislike something because everyone else likes it.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.