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

I’m very opinionated.

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

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.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

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.

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

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

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

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

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.

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

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.

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

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

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

People like to talk about war.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I like definitive things.

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 give opinions, not advice.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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 lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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