Personal Opinions

My personal opinion is

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another. Ezra Miller

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it’s just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic. David M. Kelley

Wisdom is what’s left

Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions. Cullen Hightower

Supreme Court nominees should

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be. Chuck Grassley

People who reject transcendent

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we’re left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a ‘common good’ without an objective standard … Read more

We Americans think we

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who … Read more

Religion must affirm, in

Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality. Bhikkhu Bodhi

A lot of (Kyle’s)

A lot of (Kyle’s) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing … Read more

My personal opinion is

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice. Andrew Weil

And one of my

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She’s a biologist – a student at UCLA – and I don’t judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that Amber Tamblyn