But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held...

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.

NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a “constructive” one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does...

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease...

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man’s confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused...

In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what...

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently...

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

Ideas” in politics are often intuition fancy dress.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

People are going to form their opinions. The only thing I can do is stress that it wasn’t intentional, wasn’t premeditated and I hope he gets back soon.

I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how...

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...

When you’re part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

But ‘I worked hard on this’ doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me. It’s not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It’s people taking the time to...

There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains...

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

In my life, I’ve never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they’re not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your...

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or ‘paradoxical’ I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Word like that, others’ opinions of you, shouldn’t have that kind of power, Saint.” But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people’s words and actions hurt me...

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

What other’s think of you is their opinions. Never seek to please people.Be yourself.

[This event is frankly too big to have opinions about. All I can think to do is point to one of my all-time favorite college quotes:] Think of destiny, … and how puny a part...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Opinions can never cease to exist and empower judgments. Thinking of other’s doesn’t stop or change you either.

When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson’s opinion on law, the lawyer’s...

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is to be one who loves truth. That is a place where his love...

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from...

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. […] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he...

Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it...

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others.

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right...

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people’s opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own...

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me...

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.