Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is… — Usher Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
Finding your voice is something you have to keep working at. Your voice as a comic evolves the same way that you… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
External scouting is of limited value if it's not teamed with rigorous self- examination. Successful coaches or managers have learned the value… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite,… — William Bayliss Copy Share Image
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that we're not educated to be aware and therefore able to question the reality created by our thinking.… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with… — Marcellin Berthelot Copy Share Image
Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction,… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image