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

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

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

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

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

Debates, I hate.

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

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.

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.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

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.

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.

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.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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

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.

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.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

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

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

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

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.

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

I’m very opinionated.

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 give opinions, not advice.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

People like to talk about war.

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

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

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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.

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

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