Quotes About Opinions

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

Don't worry, Sergey, that's just the way right-wing Republicans express their views.

So many men, so many opinions

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

The story of my life. Everyone always thinks they know what's best for me. When do I get to decide?

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

Opinions are not only actions but often lethal weapons. In all known wars, the opposing sides attack each other's beliefs and symbols ... The standard that should carry the greatest importance for both the state and the individual is the equal value of all human beings. Every other principle should stem from this.

A cat can be great company if you're a cat person. If you're not, well, let's just say that you shouldn't go there.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Do not trouble about those who are with you or against you, but take care that God be with you in everything you do.

Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.

So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

We no longer have the luxury of dogma, assumptions, and unexamined opinions about New York, not from any side of the many divides that separate us in this city. A fourth evolution of New York is clearly imminent; economics, public health, and social justice demand it.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

I don't have any tatts. If there's something one day that catches my attention, I might consider it. But on my neck? I don't know. I don't like anybody that much.

I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.