Opinion

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

—Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird

You are beautiful, no matter what they say.

—Christina Aguilera

Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

—Horace Mann

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

—Jef Mallett

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

—Alfred Austin

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

—John Maynard Keynes

People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

—William James

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

—A.R. Ammons

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

—Lillian Hellman

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

—Paul Valéry

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

—Michael Crichton

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

—John Kenneth Galbraith