Quotes About Opinion

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

During the ensuing heated discussion, he said two things that would ring in my ears for the remainder of my days at Screw U. First, he said, "You have a lot of nerve trying to earn $15,000 on one deal. I mean, you're only a broker." Wham—right between the eyes. Talk about painting a clear picture of how I was perceived by a lender.

And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?" "Oh, my goodness, yes," said Anna. "He wrote a book you could kill a man with—twelve hundred pages—called A New Kind of Science. It's all about them." "We should totally ask him what he thinks!" Caitlin said.

Ronald Reagan put it very simply: "Everybody who's for abortion has already been born.

Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

you cannot change your past, but you can change your opinion of your past.

As a person who has looked at the world from both the left and the right sides, I can honestly say the world looks much different depending on which side you are on.

Or that Ayn Rand and Jesus are truly strange bedfellows? Why can't we say this? Because we are afraid. Why are we afraid? Because we care too much about what people think of us, and not enough about whether we say what needs to be said at a time like this.

Pauline Kael] had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn't apply her 'approach' to a film. With her it was all personal.

Of that one, I wrote: "Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time.

Siskel's classic question, "Is this movie better than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

A man goes to the movies. The critic must admit that he is this man.

At the very moment when universities are advocating diversity as a fundamental academic value, the true diversity for which a university should make a stand, namely diversity of opinion, has been steadily eroded and in many places destroyed entirely.

When I put my trust in a critic, this is tantamount to saying that I defer to his judgement, even when I have made no judgement of my own. But my own judgement waits upon experience. It is only when I have heard the piece in question, in the moment of appreciation, that my borrowed opinion can actually become a judgement of mine.

A change of taste is not a 'change of mind', in the way that a change of belief or even of moral posture is a change of mind.

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

You know the opinion I entertain of mankind and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments and to keep my happiness independent of the caprice of others. You s[hould] not have taken advantage of my sensibility to ste[al] into my affections without my consent.

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company.

Such is my opinion of your abilities as a critic," Hamilton addressed him directly, "that I very much prefer your disapprobation to your applause.

However, he was persistent, which pleased or displeased people according to taste.

In Junior's opinion, his sisters were also disqualified because they did not handle their finances in the scrupulous manner demanded by father.

I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices which are imbibed against him.