Quotes About Opinion

Maybe so, but in politics how things look is often more important than what they are.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

Da la impresión de que todas las personas quieren tener su propio "territorio", sus "reglas", su "forma de hacer las cosas" y, en especial, su "propia opinión". Si cooperáramos más y compitiéramos menos internamente, todos ganarían más dinero.

The title of this Chautauqua is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing, and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The depths of human conformity and obedience are shown by the speed with which they occur—it takes less than 200 milliseconds for your brain to register that the group has picked a different answer from yours, and less than 380 milliseconds for a profile of activation that predicts changing your opinion. Our brains are biased to get along by going along in less than a second.

Bottom line? If you think each opinion you form is entirely rational, you're profoundly mistaken. When it comes to selling your products, it doesn't hurt to be mindful of the brain quirks we're all privy to. Professor

I don't care about anybody being handsome, she said, but I never did go for anybody that reminded me of a box of spilled spaghetti. All elbows and dry rattle.

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

they will tell me it's risky. They tell me why I should not do it. When I ask them where they get their information, they say from a friend or an investment magazine. They've never done it, and they're telling someone who's doing it why they shouldn't.

I guess you've got a spice of temper, commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

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

Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read.

I can bear it when other people have a bad opinion of me but it hurts too much when I have a bad opinion of myself.

Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.

However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic, Tasmin declared. Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes. Tasmin Berrybender

Of course Gus was a great blabber, but his blabbing wasn't really like the chattering the other sports did. He was just full of opinion, which he freely poured out, as much for his own amusement as for anything.

Just awful," said Theodosia. Drayton faced Theodosia with sad eyes. "I agree. A gentleman should never resort to name-calling." "I meant the condos," Theodosia replied.

We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

When speculation becomes "truth," opinion "fact," and prejudice a "holy cause," demagoguery is not far behind.

And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about?--Oh ! 'tis out of all plumb, my lord,--quite an irregular thing!