#opinion

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#formed #i #just #opinion #poor

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#family #friends #love #opinions #seeing

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions. ↗

— Chick Corea

#art #fact #in fact #inundated #opinions

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#favorite #favorite film #film #flies #i

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#opinion #popular #popular opinion #right #right and wrong

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever. ↗

— Marion Jones

#ever #female #greatest #in my opinion #jackie

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

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