Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Very
  • Public

• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Opinion

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
  • Functional

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Public
  • Count

• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Ego

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opinion

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Singing

• Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Democracy

• It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Opinion
  • English

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring 'Peace on earth, among men Good Will.'

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

  

  James Arthur
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.

  

  Zeno Vendler
  • Pain
  • Feelings
  • Color

• If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Energy
  • Research
  • Companies

• It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Good
  • Drink
  • Common Sense

• Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Opinion
  • Public
  • Private