Quotes About Opinion

There is one point, however, on which I wish you would give me a little enlightenment, and that is, how you can rest quietly when you reflect that there is someone who is doing his utmost to persuade others that you are as he sees you, endeavoring firmly to establish you in the estimation of others in accordance with his judgment of you, and to prevent others from seeing and judging you in any other manner?

The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is "ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog's belly".

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

ei-lo aí fica privado da estima dos graves e do amor dos frívolos, que são as duas colunas máximas da opinião.

it will earn neither the esteem of the grave nor the love of the frivolous, who are the two highest columns of opinion.

a dança é um prazer dos olhos. Esta opinião é um dos efeitos daquele mau costume de envelhecer

Eugênia desfiou uma historiazinha de toucador, que omito em suas particularidades por não interessar ao nosso caso, bastando saber que a razão capital da divergência entre as duas amigas fora uma opinião de Cecília acerca da escolha de um chapéu.

I might add that serious people will find some semblance of a normal novel, while frivolous people won't find their usual one here. There it stands, deprived of the esteem of the serious and the love of the frivolous, the two main pillars of opinion. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

O clássico é inevitável, algo que não podemos conhecer apenas de ouvir falar. Mesmo quando não nos identificamos com ele, a experiência de conhecê-lo é válida e serve como referencial até mesmo para o posicionamento contrário.

The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.

For one thing nobody seemed to think that

The people who were right about Hitler were those who knew the least about him personally. The people who were wrong about Hitler were the ones who had talked with him for hours.

As Wilson puts it, what happens is that we come up with a plausible-sounding reason for why we might like or dislike something, and then we adjust our true preferences to be in line with that plausible-sounding reason.

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.

Public opinion only affects those who do not know their destiny.

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.

Of course, you'll defend Jay, says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do. But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.