The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, an...
What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"- to know who you are and to be that person- to...
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias...
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourse...
Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality dis...
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have...
One opinion can make a fool out of a once wise person
What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma.
Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their...
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.