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.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Rabindranath Tagore

He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.