Quotes About Opinion

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

You follow voice of masses, Possibly you suppress your inner voice.

Set a goal. A personal goal. Then achieve it. Forget about what others say. Their opinion does not count. Just do it.

The reader is the final arbiter.

What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you.

Beliefs are often imposed or spontaneously created thoughts that cannot be supported by facts.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

The British like any kind of music so long as it is loud.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Todo es justificable desde el propio punto de vista, y cada cual tiene el suyo, cargarse de razón es muy fácil.

The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.

Describir es mucho más difícil que opinar. Por eso, la mayor parte de la gente opina».

Este capítulo te ha ofrecido recursos básicos para determinar el resultado de una discusión: Establece tu objetivo personal. Establece tus objetivos para tu audiencia. ¿Quieres cambiar su estado de ánimo, su opinión o su disposición a realizar lo que tú desees?

For persuasive purposes, the opinion of your audience is as good as what it knows, and what it thinks is true counts the same as the truth.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair