Quotes About Opinions

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God." —MARK TWAIN, "Corn-Pone Opinions" (1901)

Before the Internet, crackpots were mostly isolated and surely had a harder time remaining convinced of their alternate realities. Now their devoutly believed opinions are all over the airwaves and the Web, just like actual news. Now all the fantasies look real.

America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's.

In his last years, Lovecraft dropped practically all his ethnic phobias and denounced the very opinions he had earlier flaunted.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

stop living in misery because you're concerned about how things would look to other people, or because you're too scared to put yourself out there

We cooks have the highest intelligence, and we have opinions about everything. Why? Because the qualities we have come to know as 'taste' and 'a deft hand in the kitchen' are essentially courage, and that is the prerequisite to alchemy: a set of nerves so steely and seasoned, which always know how much garlic, how many chilis, how much salt and pepper to put into each dish, at any second, in any situation, in any city, for every mouth, for every type of hunger.

In Emma's defense, Cameron's annoying, but he's hot." Julian gave her a look. "I mean, if you like guys who look like a redheaded Captain America, which I... don't? "Captain America is definitely the most handsome Avenger," said Cristina. "But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart." "We're Nephilim," said Julian. "We're not even supposed to know about the Avengers. Besides," he added, "Iron Man is obviously the best-looking.

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort." "Oh?" "The taken. The uninterested." "As opposed to… you, Gabriel?" "Well, yes.

Here in the United States, the words "sleep training" are as controversial and brimming with emotion as "breast-feeding." Or

you're one of those people with set opinions on how you want the world to behave. Always trying to bend the world to fit your liking instead of the other way around. So then, once you make up your mind how you want something to be, you start losing the eyes to see what it really is.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

people want you to do what they think

But I picked it out. I didn't want you to think I had terrible taste in movies." "But you hadn't seen it. If you'd seen it nine times and really wanted me to see it the tenth time with you, and I hated it, I might think you had bad taste in movies. Which isn't the most terrible thing in the world, by the way. But you were just guessing. Anybody can guess wrong.

I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.

You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

businesses, even traditional ones like IBM, use crowdsourcing more and more as a way to get a read on their employees' opinions, to frame a challenge, or to solve a problem. Sometimes they create a competition and award the winner a prize while the company receives the rights to the winning idea.

Oh, why do I even care what other people think?

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

Oh, yes," cried Benny. "I liked her a lot. But that's different. I think Joe is going to marry her.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.