Best opinion & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.”

Lying Opinion Percent Cyberspace Hearsay

Author:David Tang

“The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.”

Firsts Jobs Lying Literature House Voice Opinion Refuse Telling The Truth Nuance Misinformation Simplification Accomplices

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”

“I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.”

Might Form Lying Stuff Opinion Cases Middle Convinced Despite Firm

Author:Robert Musil

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.”

Shows Home Lasts Political Lying Half Opinion Wife Months Late Election Radio My Wife Driving Weather Afternoon Freak Traffic Pornography Distortion Half Truth Driving Home Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Moyers

“Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.”

Truth Lying Opinion Coordination

Author:Herbert Spencer

“I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.”

People Writing Country Lying Opinion Processing Short Sighted

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.”

Ifs Persons Faces Lying Opinion Effects Dare Instant Falsehood

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.”

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!”

Lying Opinion Popularity Popular Opinion

Author:Wendell Phillips

“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.”

Source: Selected essays

“He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.”

People Has Beens Made Two Lying Mistake Opinion Atheism Sake Positive Atheism Honored Dishonor

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Seems Lying Opinion Break Rights Land Willing Wall Bears Honor Dignity Glad Discussion Womens Rights Public Opinion Usefulness Provinces

Author:Angelina Grimke

“In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.”

Humans Said Happiness Lying Opinion Human Happiness

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.”

Real Lying Opinion Democracy Tests Minorities

Author:Ellery Sedgwick

“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.”

Lying Desire Speak Opinion Boys Tone Affected Speak The Truth

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

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