Opinion - Quotes
The bad workmen (...) are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you`re an idiot.
Don`t ever let other people`s opinions of you be your opinion of yourself.
People are like sheep: they follow the leader, It is the leader who has a point of view about which way they should go. Having an original point of view or angle is a novelty. Recognising its value is intelligent. Having the courage to stand up for it in tlie face of public opinion is what makes you a winner.
Good art speaks for itself. That doesn’t mean you have to like it. So the next time you go to an art show, or look at anything for that matter, observe what effect it has on you and try to form your own opinion. That way you become the critic and not a mouthpiece for someone else’s opinions.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
Darwin`s idea of evolution by natural selection is, in my opinion, the single best idea that anybody has ever had, because in a single bold stroke it unites meaning with matter, two aspects of reality that appear to be worlds apart. On one side, we have the world of our minds and their meanings, our goals, our hopes, and our yearnings, and that most honored - and hackneyed - of all philosophical topics, the Meaning of Life. On the other side, we have galaxies ceaselessly wheeling, planets falling pointlessly into their orbits, lifeless chemical mechanisms doing what physics ordains, all without purpose or reason. Then Darwin comes along and shows us how the former arises from the latter, creating meaning as it goes, a bubble-up vision of the birth of importance to overthrow the trickle-down vision of tradition.
Data without generalizations are useless; facts without explanatory principles are meaningless. A "theory" is not just someone's opinion or a wild guess made by some scientist. A theory is a well-supported and well-tested generalization that explains a set of observations. Science without theory is useless.
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.