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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

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.

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

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

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

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

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

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

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.

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

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.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

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

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

I don’t generally read reviews.

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

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

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

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.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

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

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

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.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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.

Debates, I hate.

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

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

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 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.