Oscar Wilde Quotes on Opinions (12 Quotes)

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion. . .

One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. . . .

It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.