I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Debates, I hate.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I’m very opinionated.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

People like to talk about war.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

I give opinions, not advice.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.