Quotes About Opinions

I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Americans now believe that having equal rights in a political system also means that each person's opinion about anything must be accepted as equal to anyone else's.

But the less one thinks of self's opinions, and the better listener one becomes, greater may be the opportunities for being of help or benefit to those about the entity.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books which I could not have written much better myself.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

Our opinions, young Englishman, are the angel part of us; our acts the earthly.

Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, "Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

Sometimes what others say about us matters the most

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.

I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not on Twitter. What people say in a bar or a pub doesn't necessarily merit being memorialised.