Home / Topics / Opinion Quotes

Opinion Quotes

Browse 6387 quotes about Opinion.

Opinion Quotes

“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.”

Ifs Kind Said Important Self School Education Opinion Millions Self Esteem Students Ignorance Ignorant Esteem Promoting Depriving

Author:Thomas Sowell

“When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.”

Looks Asks Half Opinion Wise Advice Humble Ignorant Brag

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.”

Knows Want Two Opinion Skills Ignorant Two Things Betray Timidity Audacity

Book:The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.”

People Ifs Heart Soul Values Jesus Strong Sound Christ Sin Pleasure Opinion Fire Drink Jesus Christ Blessed Conviction Saved Ignorant Yearning Delighted Unbelief

Author:John Bunyan

“No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.”

Two Soul Understanding Opinion Ignorant Principal Avenues

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!”

Perfect Opinion Stupid Genius Accepted Ignorant Ignored Stupid Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

Knows Inspirational Science Opinion Knowledge Ignorance Intelligence Stupidity Satisfied Ignorant Perpetual Recipes Knowledge And Ignorance

Book:Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings