#pinions

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#accept #child #conflict #differing #education

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them. ↗

— Shania Twain

#my own #opinions #own #share #songs

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#else #hears #more #museum #opinions

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#divine #fear #floods #flow #hesitate

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

#habit #ideas #opinions #thought #views

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#christ #christian #opinions #christ

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#feedback #opinions #outspokenness #responses #responsibility

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#opinions #wrong #observation