Quotes About Opinions

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.

No entanto, não afirmo que qualquer um que levante a voz contra alguma coisa seja um fanático. Não sugiro que qualquer um que manifeste opiniões veementes seja um fanático, claro que não. Digo que a semente do fanatismo brota ao adoptar-se uma atitude de superioridade moral que impeça a obtenção de consensos.

I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more.

Maybe too many opinions is an American custom. I think Chinese people don't like to have different opinions at the same time. We believe in one thing, we stick to it for one hundred years, five hundred years. Less confusion that way.

Of cicadas, she would say that they looked like dead leaves fluttering, felt like paper crackling, sounded like fire roaring, smelled like dust rising, and tasted like the devil frying in oil.... You see, in five ways she could sense the world... But it was always the sixth way, her ... sense of importance, that later caused troubles between us. Because her senses led to opinions, and her opinions led to conclusions, and sometimes they were different from mine.

Podrán callarnos, pero no pueden impedir que tengamos nuestras propias opiniones.

I don't like superior attitudes based on well-poised intellect. I hate well-poised intellects.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

I told Jack I loved Body Heat. Because he's out here in the sticks and so he doesn't see anything. I said it was a real hot movie. He kept asking about the girl, Kathleen Turner, and I said that she'd never be remembered.

once you stop worrying what the world will think of you, your life will become that much easier to live.

Akhila, if there is one virtue I have, it is immunity to what people think of me. Naturally this makes them dislike me even more. People don't like to think that their opinion of someone means nothing to that person. And when it is a woman . . . the thought is intolerable. But like I said, I don't care.

Diversity is a strength. It's like the shrieking radios permanently attached to bright people's ears in the Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron," to prevent them from using their superior intelligence. Contrary to everything you've heard, never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a disaster.

Plays by William Shakespeare), "Books I Love" (here she placed Siddhartha, The Painted Bird, On the Road), "Books We Don't Understand Why People Like" (and here she put Peyton Place and Love Story and Hawaii). It

The question is, do you really want to know what other people think about you—about your talents and prospects—or do you want to be deceived about all that?

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deadly sick.