#opinio

So many men, so many opinions. ↗

— Terence

#men #opinions

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics. ↗

— John Byrne

#example #forward #great #group #had

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#good #good opinion #need #opinion #qualities

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#bad #bad government #government #last #likely

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#opinion #philosophy #society #age

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#judgement #opinion #beauty

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view. ↗

— Toba Beta

#different-point-of-view #grown-up #opinion #others-perspective #change

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good ↗

— Ezra Pound

#courage #criticism #intellectuals #opinion #taboos

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#opinion #truth #equality