Quotes About Opinions

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

People who don't like cats, said Valancy, attacking her dessert with a relish, always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.

When people ask me that absurd question Do you like children? I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority.

And, like all female creatures, you form your opinions by your feelings. Well, hope for your thrilling career--but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you--then someone else. Oh, no, I wouldn't like that. Then be content with fewer thrills.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Mrs. Lynde may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did

People got opinions, that's all they've got.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

What have you got against people? Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. Too many opinions.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

What were his views in this, and in every other action of his life,—or rather what were the opinions which floated in the brains of other people concerning it, was a thought which too much floated in his own, and too often broke in upon his rest, when he should have been sound asleep.

The motto from Epictetus means, It is not things themselves, but opinions concerning things, which disturb men.

I don't think my Dad was ready for me to come back home, either. I think it had been a long time since he was forced to make conversation at the kitchen table over coffee, especially with the person who had been canceling out his vote in every single election since the mid-eighties.

he had discovered for himself the uselessness of having opinions and in consequence made a habit of usually saying the opposite of what he thought in a joking way. He was an ironist, hence he appeared often to violate good sense: hence too his equivocal air, the apparent frivolity with which he addressed himself to large subjects. This sort of serious clowning leaves footmarks in conversation of a peculiar kind. His little sayings stayed like the pawmarks of a cat in a pat of butter.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.