“It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.”— John Steinbeck, theatlantic.com
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”— Bill Bullard, web.archive.org
“I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.”— banksy, goodreads.com
“I am not interested in anything that doesn’t have a genuine heart to it. You’ve got to have soul in the hole. If that isn’t there, I don’t see the point.”— Nick Cave, telegraph.co.uk
“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”— John Grisham, forbes.com
“I’ve observed my toddler, barely old enough to walk, confidently swiping her way through an iPad.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…”— Chana Messinger, theatlantic.com
“Like in high school, the thing about cliques is, they breed conformity.”— Karley Sciortino, vogue.com
“Reading source material is better than reading other people's opinions about the source material.”— Elon Musk, twitter.com
“Although women as a group have made substantial gains in wages, educational attainment, and prestige over the past three decades, the economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson have shown that women are less happy today than their predecessors were in 1972, both in absolute terms and relative to…”— Anne-Marie Slaughter, theatlantic.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com
“If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.”— Hillary Clinton, abcnews.go.com
“If Mr. Trump loses the election — and he is already arguing that the entire United States electoral system is ‘rigged’ against him — he may leave the political stage, but the questions his candidacy has raised will not. Not just Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but his entire guiding philosophy, has for decad…”— Emma Roller, nytimes.com
“There is a fraternal order of Trump supporters, mostly made up of the white men who constitute the hard core of his base. Like other fraternities, Delta Kappa Trump has its own status symbols, code words and initiation ceremonies and pledges of allegiance. And, like any insular group, the Fraternal…”— Emma Roller, nytimes.com
“Fervent but unimportant opinion: bedrooms shouldn't have televisions. Bedrooms are for three things, watchin TV ain't one of them.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com