Quotes About Opinions

I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

Opinions are like some kind of crust that grows on top of things and you want to kind of peel them off.

Opinions...are agencies of self-immobilization. What writers do should free us up, shake us up. Open up avenues of compassion and new interests. Remind us that we might, just might, aspire to become different, and better, than we are. Remind us that we can change.

If other magicians think differently from you, then you must battle it out with them. You must prove the superiority of your opinions, as I do in politics. You must argue and publish and practise your magic and you must learn to live as I do – in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.

And being a man – and a clever one – and forty-two years old, he naturally had a great deal of information and a great many opinions upon almost every subject you care to mention, which he was eager to communicate to a lovely woman of nineteen – all of which, he thought, she could not fail but to find quite enthralling.

the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master's degree from Notre

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

May we all be judged by strangers!

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

Es muy fácil predecir el pasado, tal y como saben todos los economistas, columnistas y sus cuñados, que sólo tienen que añadir un «estaba claro» al titular de ayer.

The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don't fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.

T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment is that we sort out the science from the culture before opinions become inflamed.

Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It requires supplying such ingredients as information, experience, anecdotes, and opinions, but then being prepared to have them challenged and to contribute to a new mixture. Conversation

Without such rules, there are no exchanges of ideas, only exchanges of set positions and insults. People who disagree rapidly move from talking over one another to shouting one another down, and from expressing their opinions on the matter at hand to expressing their opinions of the intelligence and morality of those who disagree with them.

Nach Elenas Meinung hatte eine Frau in der ersten Lebenshälfte das Schminken nicht nötig, während es in der zweiten nicht mehr half.

Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.

It was easy to assume that you didn't care about the opinions of others when those opinions were consistently favorable.

We plan to avoid cupids," Mr. Audley said. "Cupids?" Amelia echoed. Good heavens, he did move from topic to topic. He shrugged. "I have discovered that I am not fond of them." How could anyone not be fond of cupids?

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.