Pastoral Resources

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

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.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

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

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.