Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and...

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

The world has genetically modified opinions, but mine are organic. Taste them and you will see.

…the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people...

It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other’s work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn’t stemmed the suspicion that people’s opinions weren’t really their own. “Who’s paying you?” was a retort that might follow any bout of...

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but...

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I often get asked the question, ‘If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?’ My answer is always the same; the author I compare myself to is me. Every...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

You can’t care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it’s NOT the time to be satisfying other people’s opinions. The...

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has...

As our inclinations, so our opinions

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he had some money on the horses, and if he won, he would buy...

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

If you feel the need to confront others that have talked bad about you that shows that you value their opinion of you. Take them off the pedestal and know they’re not worthy of your...

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains...

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself...

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works,...

It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

Read things you’re sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you’re a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you’re a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you’re a Rush Limbaugh fan, read...

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

I respect your opinion unless your opinion disrespects anybody’s existence

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

People’s opinions have moved up and down on the project over time. That’s to be expected.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

I don’t argue with opinions, and I don’t argue with opinions. I don’t argue against them, and I don’t argue using them.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.

People will always have their opinions; I’ve come to learn whose matter.

It’s as simple as this. When people don’t unload their opinions and feel like they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before...

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

We’re a union of 700 players and there are going to be different opinions. But I personally appreciate the job Trevor, Ted and the executive committee have done. Ted is a big part of this...

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it’s other people one can’t satisfy. One thinks one’s way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are...

a Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century...

I want you to judge me without thinking about it.I want you to give me advice without considering my opinion.I want you to expecting anything without the need to trust me.I want you to decide...

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Opinion’s but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.