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“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.”

Author:Anne Lamott

“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.”

“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Seems Lying Opinion Break Rights Land Willing Wall Bears Honor Dignity Glad Discussion Womens Rights Public Opinion Usefulness Provinces

Author:Angelina Grimke

“Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Made Ideas Certain Parent Opinion Advice Comfort Conviction Neighbor Experts Insecure Opposing Child Rearing Neighbors Friends

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”

Ifs Men Church Opinion Pieces Window Observation Altars

Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

“Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.”

“I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.”

Ifs Thinking Important Matter Done Parent Opinion Honest Like You Old You Shattering Your Boyfriend

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“If you ask for an opinion, expect to receive one, and don't make fun of it.”

Ifs Asks Fun Opinion

Book:London's Perfect Scoundrel: Lessons in Love

Source: London's Perfect Scoundrel: Lessons in Love

“Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.”

Ifs Knows Writing Looks Certain Opinion Succeed Public Opinion

Book:The Heart of Emerson's Journals

Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals

“He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion”

Ifs Knows May Littles Doe Has Beens Reason Able Sides Opinion Cases Argument Opposites Be Good

Book:J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.”

Ifs Art Made Common Opinion Audience Flight Public Opinion Mock Another Day Airy Common Things

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.”

Ifs May Persons Strong Opinion Possibility Ought Moved Consideration Dogma Strong Opinions Dead Dog

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Energy Strong Grows Interest Human Beings Opinion Weak Relation Folks Dull Sincere

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.”

Ifs Values Interest Loses Pleasure Opinion Judging Offers Productions

Book:The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals

Source: The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”

Ifs Ideas Belief Energy Differences Justice Results Opinion Movement Expression Birth Offers Enthusiasm Speakers Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”

Ifs Men Should Care Dark Opinion Conscience Meetings Ghost Sole Phantoms Tribunals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.”

Ifs Mind Accepting Opinion Experts

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.”

Ifs Stills Sides Hurt Opinion Surgeons

Book:Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

Source: Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.”

“. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.”

Ifs Men Self Opinion Class Careers Research Pressure Mere Profession Making Money Self Respect Dishes Public Opinion Disinterested

Book:My Apprenticeship

Source: My Apprenticeship

“I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.”

People Ifs Should Country Opinion Virtue Taste Opposites Excellence Indispensable Immoral

Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

“If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.”

Ifs Art Stills Opinion Lions Elephants Strife Claws

Author:Saadi

“If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.”

Ifs Wish Education Opinion Teacher Publish Pupils

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.”

Ifs Mind Children Facts Shows Opinion Healthy Normal Capacity Arise Children Love Capacity To Love

Book:The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott

Source: The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott

“Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.”

“If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.”

Ifs Belief Opinion Practice Pure Determination Practicals Propositions Metaphysical Chatter Jargon

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.”

“There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.”

“Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Wells States Sports Opinion Fans Position Reader Dear Priorities Posts Sections Columnists Sports Fan

Author:Michael Wilbon

“If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.”

Ifs Giving Whole Church Opinion Authority Saint Deny Graves Occasions Faithful Penalties Scandal Giver Heresy Mock Liable Heretic Unbelievers

Author:Pope Benedict XIV

“If you choose to do both [acting and directing] on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in it for the same goal and it's a collaborative experience. You can't really jump into being an actor, and than direct yourself. At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful. If you try to micro-manage and control all of it, than you're probably heading for disaster.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Actors Goal Acting Accepting Opinion Willing Direct Disaster Manage Helpful You Choose Headings Admitting

Author:Rebecca Hall

“I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.”

People Ifs Want Should Government Felt Religious Opinion Practice Gun Interfere

Author:John Kasich

“The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.”

“In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.”

Ifs Needs Matter Opinion Succeed Fellows Physics Experiments

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing I Can Enjoy Realizing Walks Opinion Painting Pressure Length Museums Gallery

Author:Tom Robbins

“I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Facts Moving Young Opinion Issues Feminism College Feminist Moving Forward Young Women Supportive Public Opinion Polls Campus Older Women College Campus Opinion Polls

Author:Gloria Steinem

“You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.”

People Ifs Trying Real Facts Political Turns Religious Dark Forget Opinion Fans Serious Ready Careful Voting Be Careful Forget It Turn-on Political Opinions

Author:Bruce Campbell

“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.”

People Ifs Way Needs Long Sometimes Christian Past Used Speak Language Realizing Christianity Opinion Taken Long Time Useless Conventional

Author:Wendell Berry

“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.”

“Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.”

Ifs Trying Different Jobs Actors Opinion Office Boxes No Point Box Office Box Office Success

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.”

Ifs Opinion Creation Artistic Timeless Live In The Now Artistic Creation

Author:Justin Broadrick

“I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.”

Ifs Looks Two Dream Bigs Action Film Faces Form Realizing Opinion Kissing Performances Independent Vampire Very Happy Laboratory Action Movie

Author:Nicolas Cage

“It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.”

Ifs Trying Humans Important Character Helping Stories Opinion Issues Realistic Important Issues

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Stories Natural Opinion Tales Odd Do You Know Conceit Framed

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is the question fiction asks. That's the question I'm more interested in.”

Ifs Trying Two Asks Answers Fiction Opinion What If Non Fiction

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I am of the opinion that anyone who can squat 400 lb below parallel without a suit or press200 overhead has a strong core. I am of the opinion that when a person increases their squat, theyhave increased their core strength. I am also of the opinion that if a person wants to strengthentheir core, they must make something quantifiably stronger.”

Ifs Want Persons Strong Opinion Increase Stronger Core Suits Parallels Overhead Squat Core Strength

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Writing Enough Might Half Quality Opinion Please Lows Dozen

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

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