Opinions Quotes

Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?

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.

What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.

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.

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.

Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.

Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.

You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.

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.

A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

Your life. Your choices. People will give you endless opinions on how you should live your life and who you should be. Don't allow them. Don't listen. This is your life.

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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.

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

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.

Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and especially since her defeat: the assertion that she was the victim of misogynistic comments and that she lost because she was a woman. None of it is true. But it keeps feminists thinking of women as victims — and people who think of themselves as victims are rendered weak....Modern feminists are afraid of life. They are afraid of differences of opinion, and especially afraid of men.....Feminists are outraged and unduly stressed by much of life itself.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

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.

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.

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. 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.

They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever 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.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.