#pinions

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#independent-thought #opinions #skepticism #thinking #independence

Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #opinions

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#judgement #judging #opinions #opinions

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. ↗

— Rick Barry

#any #based #because #form #hearsay

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#judgments #matter #only #opinions #private

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ↗

— William Blake

#breeds #his #like #man #mind

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#always #i #my own #opinions #own

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more