Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Fernando Pessoa

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Isaac Watts

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Jennifer Stone

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Galileo Galilei

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Frederick William Robertson

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.