Opinion Quotes - Page 31

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. It takes you probably five to six minutes to build trust with an audience. A musical you can build trust in three notes. Boom, boom, boom, you're instantly seduced. So musicals have this easy potency, but generally, in my opinion, they waste them, because a musical is incredibly hard to do.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.