#Opinions

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

"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 to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

"I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things."

"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."

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

"Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions."

"I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life."

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

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one."

"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."

"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."

"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)"

"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."

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

"I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor."

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"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."