Quotes About Opinions

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.

Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

Quizá! Sus opiniones son suyas, naturalmente. Aún es usted muy joven. —Es un defecto que la mayor parte de la gente tiene en cierto período de su vida.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

until men gave birth and put up with husbands, as women do, they should not have an opinion about—let alone decide on—abortion and divorce.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''

I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.

I don't think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton's red zone option.

I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny, but are immature and tasteless, that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.