Quotes About Opinions

language of these intellectually impoverished young people is larded with ready-made phrases. They quote Stalin instead of thinking for themselves; they derive their opinion from Pravda editorials. They are arrogant and complacent, and everything that pertains to them is the greatest thing there is:

Pliny considered the water people and he decided they were not worth the bother of conquering. Fish, he wrote, was all they had.1 Seven centuries later opinions had not much changed. Radbodo, Bishop of Utrecht, was most uncharitable about the Frisians, the people of these marshes: he wrote that they lived in water like fish and they rarely went anywhere except by boat. They were also crude, barbarous and remote: sodden provincials.

Rationality is the application of reason to form beliefs based on facts and evidence, instead of guesswork, opinions, and feelings. That is to say, the rational thinker wants to know what is really true and not just what he or she would like to be true.

Our job is to systematically sift price data to find trends and act on them and not let the latest news flashes sway our market opinions.46

He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.

Much of the president's daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.

The organization therefore needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little, was entirely confident of his own gut instincts and reflexive opinions, however frequently they might change.

Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.

There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an "idiot." For Gary Cohn, he was "dumb as shit." For H. R. McMaster he was a "dope." The list went on.

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do, true, it is often something bad, but one has to at least admire the fact that they're thinking at all.

You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think.

There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice...for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

Als God werkelijk bestond, had hij weleens wat meer aanwijzingen omtrent zijn opvattingen mogen geven, God was een bijzonder slechte communicator, zo'n mate van amateurisme zou in een professionele omgeving nooit zijn geaccepteerd.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

But a person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free. His thinking will be directed by the opinions of his neighbors, by the editorials in the papers, and by the appeals of television. He will be at the mercy of "experts.

for real growth, it is necessary to find people whose opinions are interesting and whose conversation is stimulating. A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.

I saw the significance of this pattern immediately. The men all had individual opinions. The feminists all had the same opinion. The men embraced individualism. The feminists embraced collectivism.

And these pro-choicers seem undeterred by the fact that three out of four women choose not to identify with the term 'feminist'.

the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree.