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

Voltaire
1694 — 1778

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

Alan Alda
1936 —     

What a man says drunk he has thought sober.

Flemish Proverb

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Hungarian Proverb

Belief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance.

Samuel Butler
1835 — 1902

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

Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592

Swing an opinion around and you’re sure to hit somebody else’s.

Jon K. Hart

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison; anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unneccessary tyranny.

Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970

If most people said what’s on their minds, they’d be speechless.

MAD Magazine

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

Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988

There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.

Chinese Proverb

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke
1917 — 2008

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

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

You can only argue with the people with whom you basically agree.

Bernardo Bertolucci
1940 —     

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

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

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