Opinion Quotes - Page 23

• Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Missing, Understanding

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1304, Ageless Reads

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• I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Heart, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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• I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Thinking, Interesting

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• there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Trying, Use

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.330, e-artnow

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• No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Ambition, Glasses

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taught Us, Remember, Reason

  Jonathan Swift (2005). “Gulliver's Travels - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.233, Prestwick House Inc

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• Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Crazy, Men, Mad

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• Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

  Aristotle

  Men, Knows

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• ...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

  Henri Matisse

  Feelings, Want, Share

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Men, Order

  P. G. Wodehouse (2004). “Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Healing, Heart, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Progress, Development, Quiet

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• I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

  Jodi Picoult

  What Matters, Matter, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Nineteen Minutes: A novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Enemy, Form

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• The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

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• Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Tomorrow, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

  Kate Atkinson

  Strong, Heart, Pieces

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.153, Random House

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• Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  President, Drs, Conservative

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• It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Prejudice, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.292, Wordsworth Editions

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• As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said.

  David Sedaris

  Running, School, Middle East

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• I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Past, Sides

  "Everything Is Illuminated". www.imdb.com. October 14, 2005.

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• No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

  Voltaire

  Burning, Neighbor

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• Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Confused, Doctors

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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• In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

  Sue Grafton

  Junk, Dose, Conditions

  Sue Grafton (2011). “Q is for Quarry”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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