(1832 quotes found)
“It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.”
Aristotle
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
Oscar Wilde
“One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec”
Rosa Luxemburg
“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”
William Shakespeare
“You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions”
Patrick Leahy
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell
“As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
Nelson Mandela
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
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