Quotes About Opinion

Are you afraid of a healthy argument? Or is it that you are so convinced that you are right that my opinion is of no interest to you?

more annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille

Say what you will about Mormons, but they are very fine dancers.

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.

He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

Here is what William Beaumont had to say about saliva: "Its legitimate and only use, in my opinion, is to lubricate the food to facilitate the passage of the bolus through the [esophagus]." Beaumont was right about some things, but he was dead wrong about spit.

Which ones, in short, make the difference in the consumer's mouth and mind? "And you can't ask the consumer," says Langstaff. "You ask the consumer, 'Why does it taste better?' They say, 'Because I like it better.'" The consumer's flavor lexicon is tiny: yum and yuck.

It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point

Funny Times is the best little cartoon monthly out there (Interview with Washington City Paper)

Philip Livingston, too, alludes to the virtuous atheist in his magazine from the 1750s: "It is an Opinion too generally received, that Man is led into all the Crimes and Extravagancies he commits, thro' Unbelief. And no Wonder this Doctrine, false as it is, should be so vigorously inculcated by Men whose Interest consists in a Depression of rational Faculties."174

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy

Joe Willard turned from his study of the trees beyond the window and raised his hand. 'Yes, Joe?' Mr. Gaston said, changing his tone. 'It is my opinion sir, that apple blossoms are pink.' Mr. Gaston was silent, stunned. 'Pinkish, rather.' Joe continued. 'I think Betsy's word 'rosy' is excellent. They're colored just enough to make the effect rosy.' The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

One of the many drawbacks of this I teach what I am approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.

Good resume," he said, not sounding all that impressed. "But what's he like?" Oh, God. This conversation was going to go on.

Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.

Opinion without a rational process.

It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea

It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

Look," said Roark evenly, and pointed at the window. "Can you see the campus and the town? Do you see how many men are walking and living down there? Well, I don't give a damn what any or all of them think about architecture—or about anything else, for that matter. Why should I consider what their grandfathers thought of it?

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.

no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say.

I am in full agreement with the facts of everything said about me in the newspapers—with the facts, but not with the evaluation.