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 More about this quote Tags: understanding understand empathy opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are beautiful, no matter what they say. —Christina Aguilera More about this quote Tags: opinion beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: politics opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. —Jef Mallett More about this quote Tags: opinion thoughts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. —Alfred Austin More about this quote Tags: politics opinion thinking polling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: politics opinion perception outlook conservative Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: truth opinion memory perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. —William James More about this quote Tags: opinion prejudice thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. —A.R. Ammons More about this quote Tags: opinion creativity culture isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: justice opinion prejudice perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: truth opinion false Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Tags: opinion humor certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: opinion pain thinking laziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline. —Charlie Munger More about this quote Tags: opinion learning knowledge discipline Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email