#opinio

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #men #minded #opinions #others

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#anything #even #in my opinion #modesty #naturally

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy. ↗

— Bob Graham

#critical time #economy #few #focused #fundamentally

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#debts #men #never #opinions #repay

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#bad #being #employee #good #just

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#deserves #ever #falls #him #love

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#cases #law #number #opinions #time

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#intact #keep #leaves #opinions #principles

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#application #critical #demands #judgment #looks