Quotes About Opinion

If, for you, orthodox means finally "getting it right" or "getting it straight," mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn't a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means "thinking" or "opinion," then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.

Writing is a mirror. If someone doesn't like what you write, maybe it's because they don't like what they see in the reflection.

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

Every culture in the universe has a very different opinion about exactly when life begins. But we're all pretty much in agreement on when it's over.

If you don't have data, then all you have is an opinion.

The PREP Formula Once you have your points, you can use the "PREP" formula for each point in your presentation. P: Point of View State your opinion, idea, or fact at the beginning. R: Reasons State your reasons for holding this point of view. E: Example Reinforce your point of view with an example. P: Point of View Restate your first "P" to emphasize your idea and to come full circle.

one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

The reader is always right

Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital.

Hardly. Guin was passionate about many things, but government wasn't one of them. As far as she was concerned, one crowned puppet is pretty much the same as the next.

Male urination is a form of commentary.

Maureen Dowd - that catty, third-rate, wannabe sorority queen. She's such an empty vessel. One pleasure of reading the New York Times online is that I never have to see anything written by Maureen Dowd! I ignore her hypertext like spam for penis extenders.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

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Don't you get it? It doesn't fucking matter whether he's right or not. That's the scary part.

Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions—say 10 percent—of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.

the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error.

Freedom of belief is pernicious," Bellarmine wrote on another occasion. "It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

In opinion poll after opinion poll science is rated among the most admired and trusted occupations, despite the misgivings

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn't the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn't be the last and that it really didn't matter anyway.

He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn't the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn't be the last and that it really didn't matter anyway. So dismissing this useless assessment, he took a deep breath, exhaled loudly, put the entire matter behind him, and tramped after her.