Quotes About Opinion

I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.

ever observed that a choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom" and that the

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans—we are all federalists.

Ordinary British soldiers harbored several strange preconceptions of their own. Some were surprised that the colonists wore clothes, thinking they would dress like Indians. Other had expected to encounter roving bands of wild animals in the manner of African jungles. And when a loyalist came aboard one ship to help it into port, the British crew and troops were dumbfounded. All the People had been of the Opinion, they exclaimed, that the inhabitants of America were black.

Do things disturb you? If you have no opinion there is no suffering. You have no opinion about the headlines in the newspaper today. Where there is no opinion there is no suffering. If the cucumber is bitter, don't eat it. If there are briars and brambles on the road you are traveling, avoid them.

This is true, but the difficulty is that the conscious mind always interferes with its five-sense evidence based on outer appearances, leading to the sway of false beliefs, fears, and mere opinion. When fear, false beliefs, and negative patterns are made to register in the subconscious mind through psychological, emotional conditioning, there is no other course open to the subconscious mind except to act on the blueprint specification offered to it.

Recuerde: no es aquello en que se cree lo que proporciona el resultado, sino la creencia de su propia mente. Deje de creer en las falsas creencias, opiniones, supersticiones y temores del género humano. Comience a creer en las eternas realidades y

I learned from this episode that a person can totally disagree with another opinion without feeling that the other opinion has to be silenced. Confidence in your idea means that you don't have to make other people wrong for you to be right. Unfortunately, there are many people, among them many religious people, who don't have this attitude.

Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn't itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.

Sometimes you might say something you think is true.

Hating The Great Gatsby (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

It is not anything to be ashamed of. That is my opinion. Edna Mae and Luther felt differently of course. To them, it would be like murder. But I think if the mother is married, and there is a father—and the doctor suggests it—it is nothing like abortion which is plain murder and should be outlawed.

A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.

If I am doing the best I can and people don't approve, what they think will have to be between them and God. I

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

So when people said that the music or the book or the film was "good" or "bad," I usually felt that I just didn't know what they were talking about.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?