Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Opinion.

The repository contains 55 quotes in the category “Opinion.”
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I think that people who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963

My eighty-percent friend is not my twenty-percent enemy.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.

Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —     

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire
1694 — 1778

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

Voltaire
1694 — 1778

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592

To have doubted one’s own principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
1809 — 1894

When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.

Samuel Goldwyn
1882 — 1974

If you don’t disagree with me, how will I know I’m right?

Samuel Goldwyn
1882 — 1974

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626

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