Quotes About Opinion

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position—a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right. In other words: You need to make others wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are.

The ego] cannot tell the difference between an event and its reaction to that event. Every ego is a matter of selective perception and distorted interpretation. Only through awareness—not through thinking—can you differentiate between fact and opinion. Only through awareness are you able to see: There is the situation and here is the anger I feel about it, and then realize there are other ways of approaching the situation, other ways of seeing it and dealing with it.

Only through awareness -- not through thinking -- can you differentiate between fact and opinion.

In Shakespeare's words, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

He did not mind being flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the same tone.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement, and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion

I then thought, and am still of the same opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences.

No government could stand a moment, if it could be blown down with anything so loose and indefinite as an opinion of misconduct.

_Stulti est dixisse, Non putaram_.

Here is the thing you must bear in mind," Roosevelt said, clearly irritated. "I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public's opinion of these interests. I must represent not the excited opinion of the West, but the real interests of the whole people.

the most trenchant commentary was

classic (though one that I cannot help thinking a little overrated), and there is no point in describing her poetry here.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

The descendants of Abraham were flattered by the opinion, that they alone were the heirs of the covenant, and they were apprehensive of diminishing the value of their inheritance, by sharing it too easily with the strangers of the earth.

my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

They say that people should be free to do as they like. That's what I think. But if they start preaching at me, they can go to hell.

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the political process. These findings have led some observers to assert that citizens are ill-equipped for the responsibility of self-governance and that public opinion (the will of the majority) should not be the ultimate determinant of what government does.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.