“Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.” — Robert J. White, Living an Extraordinary Life
Tag: opinions
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“Everyone has the right to an opinion, and it’s too bad but yours is no better than some guy’s with his baseball cap on backwards drinking a Coors Light.” — Tim Kreider, “That’s Not Funny: Rage, Laughter, and Political Cartoons After 9/11,” The Comics Journal #250 (February 2003)
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“We’ve moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.” — Stephanie Zacharek, “Unintelligent Agent,”Salon (1997-01-17)
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“A man may be dexterous and able in explaining the grounds of his opinions, and yet may be a mere sophist, because he only sees one-half of a subject.” — William Hazlitt, “On Genius and Common Sense,” Table Talk
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“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.” — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
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“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.” — Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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“One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.” — Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon
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“Few men think; yet all have opinions.” — George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
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“Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right.” — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
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“That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me.” — Kenneth Tynan, Letter to George Devine (1964-03-10)