Quotes About Opinions

Our goal should therefore be to become indifferent to other people's opinions of us. He adds that if we can succeed in doing this, we will improve the quality of our life.

Notice that the advice that we ignore what other people think of us is consistent with the Stoic advice that we not concern ourselves with things we can't control.

Liberals are not all going to say exactly the same at all times; I hope they never will, because they would cease to be Liberals.

An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed.Have I not seen the loveliest woman bornOut of the mouth of Plenty's horn,Because of her opinionated mindBarter that horn and every goodBy quiet natures understoodFor an old bellows full of angry wind?

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. The hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

Something is objective if it is independent of people's opinions. If it holds or is true independently of what anybody thinks then it is objective. It is subjective if it is dependent upon people's opinions.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

Thirdly. It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority, which always attend received opinions.

There is a great difference between historical facts and speculative opinions ; nor is the knowledge of the one propagated in the same manner with that of the other

Todas las opiniones y nociones de las cosas a las que hemos sido habituados desde nuestra infancia arraigan tan profundamente que es imposible para nosotros, mediante todo el poder de la razón y experiencia, desarraigarlas, y este hábito no sólo se acerca en su influencia, sino que a veces supera al que surge de la constante unión inseparable de las causas y efectos.

There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

He was undoubtedly intelligent and well informed, but too right-wing for Grane's tastes. It was rare to find a well-educated Swede who was also a wholehearted supporter of the American Republican Party—he even expressed some sympathy for the Tea Party movement.