Quotes with self-opinion

Quotes 681 till 700 of 940.

  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • William Blake The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Doug Larson The most remarkable thing about pollsters is how they find so many people with no opinion.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • Francis H. Bradley The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Bum Phillips The only discipline that last is self discipline.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Bill Parcells The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Hosea Ballou 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.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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