#opinion

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#fixed #opinions #our #point #stop

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#any #around #away #because #becomes

The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#attitude #fact #opinions #reality #richelle

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#habits #lives #more #opinions #our

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. ↗

— Sallust

#any #clear #dislike #doubtful #every

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. ↗

— Wilfrid Sheed

#human #human race #itself #low #much

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

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I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else to do so they have a child because that will keep them busy for a while. Then to justify to the kid the reason he exists they tell him there's such a thing as love and that's where you come from because me and your daddy or me and your mommy were in love and that's why you exist. When actually it was because they were bored out of their minds. ↗

— Richard Hell

#love #opinions #business

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#opinion #religion #experience