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“Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception–do not confuse them with “facts” or “truth”. Wars have been fought and millions have been killed because of the inability of men to understand the idea that EVERYBODY has a different viewpoint.”
“The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.”
@SOPHOCLES
“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.”
@FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
@WALTER BENJAMIN
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
@JOHN STUART MILL
“Some have wondered, that disputes about opinions should so often end in personalities; but the fact is, that such disputes begin with personalities, for our opinions are a part of ourselves.”
@CHARLES CALEB COLTON
“It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.”
@JOHN LOCKE
“An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity or a contradiction. It is a truth, or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.”
@FRANCES WRIGHT
“It is always imprudent to force opinions upon others; if they do not question the arguments they will the authority, and having ventured to examine the one, will feel less delicacy in rejecting the other.”
@NORMAN MACDONALD
“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
@HORACE MANN
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.”
@FRANCIS BACON
“It is often very illuminating … to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
@WALTER LIPPMANN
“In a society in which there is no law, and in theory, no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”
@GEORGE ORWELL
“Public opinion overflows eventually into national behaviour and national behaviour, as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behaviour, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.”
@JAN STRUTHER
“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”
@ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
@HELEN KELLER
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
@JOHN STUART MILL
“There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless — too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.”
@SAUL BELLOW
“Look less at an opinion given, than at the character of him who pronounces it. Incalculable mischief is often done by people unreflectingly receiving as “authority” the opinions of a mere ass, on subjects with which they are imperfectly acquainted, but on which he is supposed to be better informed, yet which are often the farthest from the truth, the judgment of such a person being either swayed by the most absurd prejudices or blinded by the most ineffable conceit.”
@CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
“Let all differences of opinion touching errors, or supposed errors, of the head or heart on the part of any in the past, growing out of these matters, be at once and forever in the deep ocean of oblivion buried.”
@ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS
Difference of Opinion Quotes
“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it, we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.”
@MARK TWAIN
“Let all differences of opinion touching errors, or supposed errors, of the head or heart on the part of any in the past, growing out of these matters, be at once and forever in the deep ocean of oblivion buried.”
@ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS
“I’ll tell you what’s the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion–the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honorable and what is shameful. That’s the steam that is to work the engines.”
@GEORGE ELIOT
“In whatever opinion we are confirmed, we consider our discrimination perfectly judicious; when we change that opinion for another, we are the same; when we relapse into a former tenet, we are so too: in the greatest deviation of principle or profession, we are still confident; and were we to progress in rapid and endless diversity of sentiment or persuasion, confidence, certainty, and inscrutable assurance would, perhaps, ever be our concomitant guides.”
@NORMAN MACDONALD
“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”
@CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
“A great faction is many persons, yet but one party; and that is but one opinion: such a faction is but one man, in point of judgment. One free-spirited man is, in this particular, equal to a whole faction.”
@BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.”
@CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
“If then I am addressing one of that numerous class, who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with the book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished: do not come to look for it in a stone quarry. But if you are building up your opinions for yourself, and only want to be provided with materials, you may meet with many things in these pages to suit you.”
@JULIUS HARE
“Persecution is only an attempt to do that overtly and with violence, which the community is, in self-defense, perpetually doing unconsciously and in silence. In many societies variation of belief is practically impossible. In other societies, it is permitted only along certain definite lines. In no society that has ever existed, or could be conceived as existing, are opinions equally free (in the scientific sense of the term, not the legal) to develop themselves indifferently in all directions.”
@ARTHUR BALFOUR
“The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally, and that, if possible, he should get the reputation of being well-to-do in the world.”
@SAMUEL BUTLER
“We want at least a modicum of intellectual honesty, and the man who shuffles his opinions in order to match ours is seen through quickly. We want none of him.”
@ELBERT HUBBARD
“It is always chilling in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally, get fond of it.”
@GEORGE ELIOT
“Genuine belief ended with persecution. As soon as it was felt that to punish a man for maintaining an independent opinion was shocking and unjust, so soon a doubt had entered whether the faith established was unquestionably true.”
@JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
“We want at least a modicum of intellectual honesty, and the man who shuffles his opinions in order to match ours is seen through quickly. We want none of him.”
@ELBERT HUBBARD
“When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.”
@Carlos Slim
“We must also strive to understand the nature of mobs. A mob has its own constitution. It has its own country. It drafts its own orders and directives, and identifies its own prey.”
@Ravish Kumar
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
@Marcus Aurelius
“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line.”
@Christopher Hitchens
“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”
@Napoleon Hill
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
@Douglas Adams
Opinions Quotes Funny
“I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently, I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
@George Carlin
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
@William Blake
“The only opinion about your dreams that counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours.”
@Cynthia Kersey
“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
“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.”
@Voltaire
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
@Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”
@Steve Maraboli
“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!”
@Steve Maraboli
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
@Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
@Edmund Burke
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
@Bertrand Russell
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
@Oscar Wilde
“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
@Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.”
@Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part, I read only to please myself, and like only what suits my taste.”
@Voltaire, Candide
“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”
@Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
@Ashly Lorenzana
“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
@J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What’s even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don’t even know who they are themselves.”
@Ashly Lorenzana
“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
– Jane Austen
Opinion Quotes and Sayings
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
@Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
@Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
@F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wildflowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
@Shannon L. Alder
“Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated “I am interested in your nipples” or not.”
@David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground
“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
@Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”
@Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.”
@Osho
“I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.”
@Hillary Clinton
“Each voice carries a portion of the value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, a transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.”
@B. W. Powe, Towards a Canada of Light
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, as result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
@Criss Jami, Healology
“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”
@John Bunyan
“Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.”
@Hugh Elliott
“Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”
@Ron Chernow
“Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is, therefore, less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.”
@Milan Kundera, Encounter
“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.”
@National Academy of Sciences
“It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”
@Plutarch
“It seemed to me an odd view to take – rather as if one should protest that one didn’t LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.”
@John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
“A judging eye can’t see beyond the outfits. When you drop all judgments and the light of awareness shines in you, the true nature of everyone gets revealed before you.”
@Shunya
“Judging the things you do not understand is like a game of gambling where setbacks are often than success.”
@Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
My Opinion Quotes
“Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men’s minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”
@Francis Bacon, The Essays
“They included me, and I spoke up when I could, but mostly I listened. “What do you think Sammie?” Stewart would ask. And eventually, I just had to tell them that most of the time, I didn’t know. “I’m sort of a sponge,” I said and could feel my mouth get dry. “I have a few strong opinions, but they might change. I just want to find out everything I can.”
@Lara Avery, The Memory Book
“I don’t have to agree with everything someone says, but everyone has something I could assimilate to make my own insight stronger and clearer.”
@Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude
“An opinion is not to be respected simply because somebody holds it. More or less any obnoxious viewpoint one can think up is probably held by somebody somewhere. There are right-wing Afrikaners who believe that Nelson Mandela was evil.”
@Terry Eagleton, Culture
“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it – to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.”
@Anne Brontë
“Mrs. General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people’s opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.”
@Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
“Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world themselves that has them seeing things as they do. Sometimes you need to take back the authority you are giving to the opinions of others and place a bit more trust in yourself.”
@Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
“If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you’ll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that’s how it should be; we’re not robots.”
@Shawnda Currie
“Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren’t as big or as intelligent.”
@Janiera Eldridge, Soul Sisters
“A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it’s time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind–made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it–is open. People close an undecided mind because they’re trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.”
@John Barnese
“Tener opiniones es estar vendido a uno mismo. No tener opiniones es existir. Tener todas las opiniones es ser poeta.”
@Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.”
@Ellen J. Barrier
“I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for a diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.”
@Richard Dawkins
“I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.”
@Steve Maraboli
“It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other’s work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.”
@John Smeaton
“I often get asked the question, ‘If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?’ My answer is always the same; the author I compare myself to is me. Every writer has a unique style relevant to only themselves. I am nothing like other authors; some aspects of my writing may have similarities to another, but in the end, each and every one of us is different.”
@Ashley Tia Long
“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will…blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”
@Michael Bassey Johnson
“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”
@Albert Einstein
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.”
@Shannon L. Alder
Most Inspirational Sayings Opinions Quotes Funny
“Word like that, others’ opinions of you, shouldn’t have that kind of power, Saint.” But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people’s words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.”
@Jay Crownover, Nash
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans”
@Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Sometimes opinions should be kept to one’s self, but not inappropriate situations. Be the judge of the appropriate situation, and be prepared for backfire. Moral of the story; if everyone doesn’t agree, then prepare for them to lash out in disagreement.”
@Liam McGrath
“I have no right to give my opinion,” said Wickham, “as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial.”
@Jane Austen, Pride, and Prejudice
“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.”
@Agnostic Zetetic
“Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby soundtrack. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.”
@Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading
“Whatever we decide we don’t want in life (whether it’s dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.”
@Danielle Steel, Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love
“Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it and then move on. There is no need to prove at all that we have a different perception of ourselves from what we are being offered.”
@Raphael Zernoff
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it’s other people one can’t satisfy. One thinks one’s way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are fake, you are nothing, you’re animal and must die, and no one will know you were ever here. It’s an intimation of the whole absurdity of what you are and do. It’s the worst kind of despair.”
@Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
“A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people and the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.”
@Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
“Don’t forget, I didn’t choose to come here. I was kidnapped and forced to live here by your marvelous Pemdas warriors, who are interested in Earth only as it serves to keep ‘your beautiful Pemdas’ safe. Believe me when I say I would far rather be home with my friends.” -Reece Bryant, The Legacy of The Key.”
@S.L. Morgan, The Legacy of the Key
“You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you – or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which – I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.”
@Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
“When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.”
@Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
“People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean they’re wrong. Within the context of their reality, they feel just as right, as you do within the context of your reality. Appreciate and respect that and perhaps in time you’ll find even ground.”
@Deon Potgieter
“The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias, and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all viewpoints.”
@Shannon L. Alder
“The only people to whose opinions I listen to now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.”
@Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.”
@Dada Bhagwan
Opinion Quotes and Sayings
“As many opinions, you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whoever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.”
@Dada Bhagwan
“When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and “true”, it will become a science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs, and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?”
@Christina Engela, Demonspawn
“I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing — if it has indeed ever existed.”
@Mark Twain, Corn Pone Opinions
“There are a great many opinions in the world; a good half of them held by people who have never been in trouble. (A Misfortune)”
@Chekhov A.
“Let them howl. Let the wolves pant. You have evolved. You were not fashioned to run in a pack or to be defined by the opinions of those who wish to limit your creativity. Let them howl. Let the wolves pant.”
@Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
“The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.”
@C. JoyBell C.
“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”
@Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”
@Truman Capote
“If people spend years trying to prove that you are less than it’s because you are more than enough and they feel threatened. You are more than people’s opinions.”
@P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures
“People who just float around in life without any direction will tell you that your dreams are not possible. Their knowledge is the perfect mirror of their results. Logic makes perfect sense.”
@Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
“Don’t let society’s perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?”
@Nyki Mack
“We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different”
@Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Everyone has the right to their opinions on a matter but make sure to do your research and know the facts before your opinion crown you an ignorant fool. Keep this in mind, do not be lazy with your research and have conversations with opposite minds from your opinions of the matter.”
@Jesus Apolinaris
“Feedback is essential to growth. Be aware of the difference between genuine and faulty characters. It’s hard to tell who is conforming to others’ opinions and who is speaking out of intellect and honesty to bring awareness to the people surrounding them. I have always fought to be the latter. The former has always made me withdraw from society.”
@Kristin Michelle Elizabeth
“What if we just all read things and talked about them, and sometimes we liked them and sometimes we didn’t and most of the time we didn’t agree at all, and then we all went and read more things, and repeated the dance all over again?”
@Catherynne Valente
Strong Opinions Quotes
“The fastest way to become ridiculously biased is to collect opinions like berries and ignore facts. However, gathering facts are more useful berries; opinions have a better taste.”
@Thomas Vato, Questology
“Stop worrying about and believing in what other people think of you, do not let their opinions define who you are because all of us are amazing in our own ways.”
@Nyki Mack
“It’s not about taking a stand, for anyone can do that. Rather, it’s about taking a stand for the right reasons and taking a stand against taking a stand when they’re not. And that’s where more of us need to learn to stand.”
@Craig D. Lounsbrough
“But being a teenager is one good day of being a superhero, followed by a hundred days of being self-conscious about every little damn thing. It’s one big, selfish moment when you don’t give a shit about other people’s opinions, but you still want your friends to love who you are and what you do.”
@Julian Winters, Running With Lions
“Do not expect me to add sugar to my opinions when I speak. I give you as it is. Life is not about what you want to hear. It’s all about being able to accept respect and appreciate my honest thoughts.”
@Nitya Prakash
“We’ll never be measured in life by our opinions. Only by our actions. Love and kindness will always be the universal truth that will never change.”
@Ron Baratono
My Opinion Quotes
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice are this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.”
@Soren Kierkegaard
“Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.”
@Saint Teresa of Avila
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
@Aldous Huxley
“Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can’t live your life based on other people’s opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you’re not living.”
@Rumer Willis
“I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.”
@John le Carre
“I don’t ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it’s in the news. That’s the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That’s what I’m trying to avoid.”
@Doug Stanhope
“In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.”
@Billie Eilish
“You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have a positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.”
@Carlos Ghosn
“You can never go wrong with a pair of jeans, a cool tailored shirt, and a nice jacket. You can dress it up with a more stylish jacket or a bracelet, watch, or necklace. It’s simple, but it’s cool. That’s my opinion.”
@Julian Edelman
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility, I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
@John Ruskin
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.”
@Oscar Wilde
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
@Thomas Jefferson
“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.”
@Devon Aoki
“There is a power in public opinion in this country – and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers – which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.”
@Martin Van Buren
“I’m really not interested in other people’s opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.”
@H. G. Bissinger
“It’s the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process – which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.”
@Pankaj Patel
Best Quotes about Opinions of Others
“People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language, and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job ’cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.”
@Patrice O’Neal
“I don’t really care what other people see me as. I seriously don’t. I’ve always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I’ve always thought that it carries the most weight. So I don’t care what other people’s opinion of me is or how they view whatever I’ve said or done.”
@Kajol
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
@Pope Benedict XVI
“People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it’s just opinion. Don’t let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.”
@Victoria Pendleton
“Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one’s principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.”
@Madeleine M. Kunin
“The overwhelming majority of Americans want decent and civil political dialogue, and candidates for office and elected leaders must continue to call for calm and unity, even when there are intense differences of opinion.”
@Jon Ossoff
“People will come to me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don’t like it, I don’t like it. They couldn’t pay me to wear it. If it’s something I can rock with, I’ll rock it. I’m more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.”
@Jaylen Brown
“I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state.”
@William Barr
“There’s still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.”
@Vanessa Diffenbaugh
“But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all – it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.”
@Ian Hamilton Finlay
“But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews because his relatives were German Jews and doctors.”
@Tobias Wolff
“We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.”
@Joe Slovo
“I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you’re going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.”
@Paul Westerberg
“And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives – they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls, or a cabinet.”
@Joe Eszterhas
“The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don’t say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.”
@Moshe Katsav
“But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.”
@Jacques Lacan
“In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.”
@Louis Stokes
“We don’t think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we’ll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.”
@Rafik Hariri
“First of all, we were not speaking. It’s gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.”
@Julie Nixon Eisenhower
“The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects, ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.”
@Asa Gray
“They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they’re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.”
@Anthony Holden
“I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course, once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I’m much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.”
@Willa Ford
“I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.”
@Alfred Russel Wallace
“How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.”
@Tyson Fury
“A lot of people ask what it takes to move from being a creative to a leader: Take everyone’s career personally. People will work hard for you if you work hard for them. Any idiot can be a boss; all you need is a title. But to be a leader, you need to earn respect and have an opinion you stand by.”
@David Droga
“I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.”
@Martin Seligman
“I do think I’m country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.”
@Sam Hunt
“I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that’s been fed to them.”
@Curtis LeMay
“I do come across people who don’t like me, don’t like my comedy, don’t think it’s funny, it’s too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it’s like, ‘Okay. That’s your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that’s good.’ Hopefully, it balances out.”
@Demetri Martin
“It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.”
@John Archibald Wheeler
“I never moisturised until I got skin cancer. It totally changed my opinion on moisturising. I used to think using a face protector was a bit of a girly thing, now I’ve worked out it’s actually essential to keep your skin healthy.”
@Sean Lock
“When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion – which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.”
@Courtney A. Kemp
“The key to life, in my opinion, is to hang with good people, to have good people around you all the time because you’re always going to have some people who will try and lead you in a certain place, and when the pressure comes on, you want real tough, solid people sitting next to you.”
@Robert Kraft
“People who don’t know me have opinions about me. That’s the part that’s very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you’ve never met them or spent any time with them? So it’s all based upon hearsay or things that they’ve read.”
@Rick Barry
“To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly, the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.”
@Jay Parini
“I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.”
@Shirley Chisholm
“My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I’m drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.”
@Karen Traviss
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