Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

[Stars owner Tom Hicks said the owners are solidly behind Bettman, and he does not expect many differing opinions at the meeting in New York.] There are economic differences between the teams, so I’m sure...

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Data doesn’t matter. Only opinions and stories formed from the data matters and gets shared and absorbed.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Actors always have opinions.

… the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’…

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong.

I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people’s opinions.

I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the...

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

When we mention our personal opinions we must always make quite clear the difference between them and the Faith itself . . .

What matters is your convictions.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.

His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth.

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for...

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

We do not have forever to say whatever. For with every single day that goes by, the odds of our opinion(s) being read or heard diminishes.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

He said that there is no clear-cut answer. It’s opinion based on opinions.

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it:...

Well, it all comes to this, there’s no use trying to live in other people’s opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

Sometimes opinions should kept to ones self, but not in appropriate situations. Be the judge of the appropriate situation, and be prepared for backfire. Moral of the story; if everyone doesn’t agree, then prepare for...

You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone’s ‘interesting opinions’ so personally.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of...

Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I’m saying?

the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world...

I put less stock in others’ opinions than my own. No one else’s opinions could derail me.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will...

I grew up with guys who would run circles around me intellectually, … But I always had opinions about things. You kind of had to when you grew up going to school 10 blocks from...

Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the ‘best’ people, the ‘right’ food, the ‘important’ books. I have known a human...

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

I can learn a lot from Paul. I need him to get his opinions. There are other good runners ? the Olympic and world champion and the London Marathon winner ? but with Paul there,...

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

In response to my father-in-law’s view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

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...