William R. Alger Quotes

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

William R. Alger

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• I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Nothing
  • Opinions
  • Rebellion

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Afraid
  • Very
  • Opinions

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

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Record
  • Opinions
  • Anti-people

• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Just
  • Opinions

• On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Opinions

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

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Years
  • Said
  • Opinions

• Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Way
  • Opinions
  • Reward

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
  • Facts

• People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Opinions
  • Queen

• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Help
  • Accept
  • Treat

• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Imagination
  • Soars
  • Stern

• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Home
  • Night
  • Wish

• He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Opinions
  • Master
  • Bigot