Opinion Quote by Ralph Venning

“People prefer opinions to truth. They try to bend the world to fit their assumptions, instead of changing their assumptions to fit the world.…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

— Michael Ondaatje

“The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice or many times,…

— John Stuart Mill

“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.”

— David Grant Urban

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

— Oscar Wilde

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

— Martin Heidegger

“The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all…

— Bertrand Russell

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

— Herbert Spencer

“A major reason, I believe, is this: It does not sit comfortably with a person to affirm, and try to live, the claim that…

— Esther Lightcap Meek

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

— Daniel Kahneman

The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times,…

— John Stuart Mill