Quotes About Opinion

Don't put beets in the soup, Reshi. They're foul.

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

Why do I need to prove anything to you?" Bast asked. "Why would I care what you think? Be happy in your silly little ignorance. I'm doing you a favor by not telling you the truth.

Der Kontrabaß ist das scheußlichste, plumpeste, uneleganteste Instrument, das je erfunden wurde. Ein Waldschrat von Instrument.

If you show somebody a piece of your work and you ask them 'What do you think?', they will probably say it's okay because they don't want to offend you. Next time, instead of asking if it's right, ask them what's wrong. They may not say what you want to hear, but the chances are they will give you a truthful criticism.

Foy was no Tree of Knowledge, at most he was a Bush of Opinion

But that's just me. Others see things differently. My point here is just that the failure of people to attend to data in the political domain does not reflect a limitation in their capacity for reason. It reflects how most people make sense of politics. They don't care about truth because, for them, it's not really about truth.

I'd rather kiss a mad cow on the muzzle than a smoker on the mouth.

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.

They are the people who currently dominate the media. An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior;

When it comes to weighing up evidence, we like to think of ourselves as deliberative and detached. We think carefully about the arguments and form an opinion or a belief in a dispassionate way. In reality, though, our beliefs often come first and then we search for evidence to support them. When the evidence supports a belief, we are proud of being right in the first place.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

The partisan press would end to-morrow, but for the narrowness and meanness of readers.

So sue me, I think the marijuana laws are bullshit.

Bertrand Russell, "The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."80

How to tell a story? First find a point of view.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet, guys, because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close . . . but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

In 1938, U.S. public opinion preferred fascism to communism by 31 percent to 22 percent; 47 percent had "no opinion.

I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.