Quotes About Opinion

He who forms his opinion of himself in solitude, without knowing the powers of other men, is very liable to error. - On Alexander Pope

What an opinion will afterages entertain of their religion, who bid fair for a gibbet, by endeavouring to bring in a superstition, which their forefathers perished in flames to keep out.Addison'sFreeholder,No 1.

Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man's life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.

The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors

In Ireland they put their children to fosterers: the rich sell, the meaner sort buying the alterage of their children; and the reason is, because in the opinion of the people, fostering has always been a stronger alliance than blood.Sir John Davieson Ireland.   

Some praise at morning what they blame at night,But always think the last opinion right.A muse by these is like a mistress us'd,This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd.Pope'sEss. on Crit.

That she thought me the prettiest creature she ever beheld. — Creature was her word — We are all creatures, 'tis true: But I think I never was more displeased with the sound of the word Creature, than I was from Lady Anne.

Where the world is inclined to favour, replied I, it is apt to over-rate, as much as it will under-rate where it disfavours.

do not easily dislike, Sir; but then I do not easily like. And I never will marry any man, to whom I cannot be more than indifferent.

Una opinión no te la pueden censurar, te la tienen que rebatir. Un intelectual sin sentido crítico no un intelectual. Es un adulador.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

Legolas is way cuter than Aragorn, and you know it.

Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?

Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says that's all right. Fortunately for my mother, I am alone in this opinion.

ugly blue pants!

In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of I don't give a damn what you think.

Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government.

As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.

She wants to live in the delirious professions, as Valéry calls them—trades in which the main instrument is your opinion of yourself and the raw material is your reputation or standing.

He said, repeating the opinion of Socrates in the Phaedrus, that a tree, so beautiful to look at, never spoke a word and that conversation was possible only in the city, between men.

It is so easy for outsiders to say that there are two sides to the question. What a terrible expression! I am beginning to detest

Schopenhauer on Hegel: A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.