Quotes About Opinion

This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.

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. When

As a trained persuader, I prefer not to join any kind of tribe. Doing so triggers an automatic bias toward tribe opinion and blinds one to better thinking. It also marks you as an enemy to competing tribes.

Unfortunately, most people believe that analogies are one of the best ways to persuade. That fact goes far in explaining why it seems that every debate on the Internet ends with a Hitler analogy. The phenomenon is so common it has its own name: Godwin's law. But I doubt many people have changed an opinion just because a stranger on the Internet compared them to Hitler. A direct attack usually just hardens people into their current opinions.

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken. [on Twitter , July 17, 2012]

She is arguing the

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

If I'm to listen to someone else's opinion, it must be put in a positive way; I have enough problematic speculations in my own head

Unfortunately, one can hardly think or say anything right anymore without grievously wounding the state, the gods or public opinion.

107. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

Stupid that everyone in his case Is praising his particular opinion! If Islam means submission to God, We all live and die in Islam.

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point.

I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his book of the circulation of the blood came out, that he fell mightily in his practice, and that 'twas believed by the vulgar that he was crack-brained; and all the physicians were against his opinion.

A few, more dedicated to public service, in government, in the Cabinet even, stifling yawns as popular opinion forced them into legislating for reforms that they must have hated.

Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non?winning front?runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self?gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig?flipped ding?dongs in the history of the Republic.

The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.

The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know

This man, Trump. There is no way he could be president. Okay, just take my word for it. It was never going to happen.

Popular applause veers with the wind.