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Opinions quotes
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I’m afraid that all of them are unprintable
— Alfred Lansing
I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let’s face it, at the end of the day, I’m not that smart of a guy.
— Kid Rock
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.
— Samuel Johnson
The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.
— Shannon L. Alder
Different people have different ways of defining, living and maintaining relationships. Your way is not the only right way, it is merely your way. As far as right way is concerned, there isn’t any. It is all about different opinions and perceptions.
— Arti Honrao
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
— Virginia Woolf
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
— Virginia Woolf
Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don’t let opinions change you.
— Nikki Rowe
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
— Louis D. Brandeis
To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.
— Raif Badawi, 1000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
There’s no accounting for the opinions of old ladies. They think everyone is cute.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.
— Cher
Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
— Taylor Swift
Listening to the opinions of only those who seek to please you is like looking at yourself through a broken mirror
— the view is distorted
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.
— Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
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?
— Nyki Mack
Open your newspaper – any day of the week – and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
— Peter Benenson
Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is
— Sameh Elsayed
A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
— Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you’re doing the best you can, and God bless.
— Emma McLaughlin
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
— Charles McCabe
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
— Yair Lapid
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing.
— Debasish Mridha
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
— Elbert Hubbard
Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don’t seem to sit right with you.
— Auliq Ice, Let’s Face It
The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
— Simone Weil
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
— René Descartes, Discourse on Method
Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them.
— Saaif Alam
Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.
— Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
— Dōgen, A Primer Of Soto Zen
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
— Alexander Pope
If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on you by the society
— Sunday Adelaja
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
I respect the opinions of others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her
— Thomas Cranmer
Why do men always have such high opinions of their cock?
— Amy Andrews, Playing the Player
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.
— Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.
— Michael Harris
Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn’t depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are…
— Assegid Habtewold
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.
— Wilfrid Laurier
Don’t build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
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
I’m a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Woodrow Wilson
There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
— Mavis Gallant
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, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Why don’t you ever wait a second and see what I’m planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Don’t base your decision on the opinions of those who don’t want to see you grow.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
The day you stop caring about opinions of other , is the first day of you freedom.
— Robin Dabhi
There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
— Michel de Montaigne
He said that the music—its order and precision—helped him find the patterns in things—the way through the confusion of events and opinions to direction, to order, and beyond, to inspiration.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.
— Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
— Chester Bowles
It’s through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
— Craig Dent
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
— E. B. White
Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn’t.
— Amit Kalantri
Childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
— Oscar Wilde
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I love David’s attitude in the Bible. He wasn’t afraid to go against the trends. He wasn’t going to be defined by the opinions of others.
— Victoria Osteen
No matter what challenges you are faced with, or the opinions people have of you, rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future.
— Scott Allan, Rejection Free: How To Choose Yourself First and Take Charge of Your Life By Asking For What You Want
Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
— Yahtzee Croshaw
Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t rely on the opinions of others.Only you will know what isright for you.
— Domonique Bertolucci, The Happiness Code: Ten Keys to Being the Best You Can Be
Keep away from people who always try to stop you from sharing your opinions with the entire world. Don’t listen to people who mock you because you talked about who you want to be! Exposed yourself!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
— Georg Cantor
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
I have a great agency! It’s definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
— Suki Waterhouse
… the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’…
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
— Drake
When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.
— David W. Earle
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond de Goncourt
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
— Marcel Proust
There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies.” Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn’t abandon an untenable position.
— Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
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, The Salmon of Doubt
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, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller – Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
— Carlos Ghosn
She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people’s opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.
— Stephanie Kallos, Broken for You
If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.
— Dave Hunt, An Urgent Call To A Serious Faith
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
— Martin Luther
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don’t rely too much on other people’s opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
— Luke Evans
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.
— Gustave Flaubert
I don’t wear the opinions of others anymore, I learnt to dress myself.
— Nikki Rowe
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v
— Steve Jobs
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Don’t be led by the opinions of others. Listen to your sacred voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
— Tyron Edwards
It’s definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
— Suki Waterhouse
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
— Thomas More, Utopia
The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one’s opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
— John F. Kennedy
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are
— Sunday Adelaja
Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. Some might guess, but that doesn’t mean their opinions are correct.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
One of my beliefs about leadership is it’s not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.
— Robert Kraft
I have a mentor. I have… guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Perfection does not take into account the viewer.’ Pheidias had once said to me. ‘It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
The opinions of souls are their state of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.
— Josh Billings
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
— Zhuangzi
To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.
— Abigail Biddinger
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— Steve Jobs
To reach greater heights, we must refuse the negative opinions of people and passionately pursue your destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.
— Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
Leave people to their opinions and judgments. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. Leon Brown
— Leon Brown
One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
— Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
— Brigham Young
People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
— Steve Maraboli
It’s easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.
— Tarang Sinha
Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else’s opinions of me, I wouldn’t be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar—and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us.
— Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis On the Tides of Destiny
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.
— Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
— Edward Gibbon
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
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
— Mark Twain, What Is Man?
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
We are not the passive victim of others’ opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.
— John Ortberg, The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
— Bob Wells
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
— Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858
Do not allow the opinions of others deter you. Be yourself and have faith in your abilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be….
— Victor Antonio Hayes
God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Your opinions about doesn’t matter, I know who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You opinions about me does not change who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people’s opinions about you.
— Anonymous
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West – which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
— Rabih Alameddine
The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
— Rupert Sheldrake
As long as I know that my motives are good, I’m Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
— David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery
Far too many Americans formulate their own personal expert opinions based on the Golden Rule and the Eight-second Soundbyte.
— Chris Penningroth
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin
— Albert Einstein
The average man’s opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
— Bertrand Russell
I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
— Kourtney Kardashian
I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding
I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
— Noorilhuda, The Governess
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
— United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.
— Walter Lippman
disregard the opinions of those you don’t aspire to be, that’s the first step to finding your own two feet.
— Nikki Rowe
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.
— Akiroq Brost
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
— Joseph Joubert
Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . . .believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.Most of all we are to test them against thestandard of the Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
…[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
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
Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn’t make me evil.
— Adam Scythe, Immortals, Vol. II.
When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.
— Noel Gallagher
It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy.
— Debasish Mridha
People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.
— Duop Chak Wuol
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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
There are opinions and then there are opinions…behold the nature of mankind.
— Will Leamon
Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except “Do you have enough room in the toes?
— Florence King, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye
But ‘I worked hard on this’ doesn’t exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren’t about anyone being out to get me. It’s not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It’s people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this s
— Jim C. Hines
Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.
— J.W. Dunne, An Experiment with Time
A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
I’m obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
— Moby
It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.
— Sydney Smith
Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The only people to whose opinions I listen 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
It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.
— Leah Cypess, Nightspell
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society’s for your best possible future.
— Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.
Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.
— George F. Will, One Man’s America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we’re about to do something harmful, to someone else.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
— Isaac Newton
Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l’éloquence d’une parole avec la justesse d’une pensée.
— Tzvetan Todorov, In Defence of the Enlightenment
It’s when you feel low about yourself, others actions and opinions will affect you. When you look at yourself as a confident person, it’s then; you’ll find the most peace and understanding, that it’s your world you have to live with not theirs.
— Ron Baratono
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good
— Ezra Pound
It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
— Jeff Nichols
…I’m not afraid of the opinions of others – but of being needed and coming up short …
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
— George Washington, George Washington’s Farewell Address
People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.
— Chris Burkmenn
Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.
— Dada Bhagwan
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.
— Friedrich Schiller
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
— James Madison
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
— André Gide, Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality
Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.
— Debasish Mridha
Because I’m a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.
— Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
— Kevin Focke
Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people’s minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
— David Crystal
It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman
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.
And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it’s no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.
— Nikki Rowe
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
— John Locke
Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you truly love who you are other’s opinions won’t even matter.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
— Virginia Woolf
Don’t let public opinions pinion you
— Constance Friday
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
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
— Rafael Vinoly
I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority.
— Sarah Ayoub, Hate is Such a Strong Word
In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
The relationships flourish with exchanged respect, and not by pretending or beggary, as that expressing the opinions is the shortest way to build the bridges of confidence and expanding the circle of special relationships.
— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
When it comes to your self-esteem, it is best not to value the opinions of deluded psychopaths.
— Rosen Trevithick
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…
— Thomas Jefferson, The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”, 1953)
— Albert Einstein
The opinions of others cannot damage you.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.
— Carlos Wallace
Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity isز
— Sameh Elsayed
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people’s opinions of you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As long as other people’s opinions matter more than your own, you’re owned by them. You’re not even free.
— Oprah Winfrey
Focus on living your life, and let the opinions of others be what they are.
— Dancolin Flamiano
Listen to that little voice inside you. Sometimes it can whisper meaningful words of wisdom and make more sense than the deafening noise of opinions and judgements outside.
— Roopleen
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 rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails.
— Christopher Marshall
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
— Joseph de Maistre
Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
— Gene Fowler
Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?
— Shannon Hale, Austenland
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
— Nyogen Senzaki
I am not a Federalist, ” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
— Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London’s West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
— Jack Wild
It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
— Al Franken
Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
— Seth Czerepak, The 24 Hour Marketing Miracle: The FIRST Marketing Book EVER to Be Backed Up By a 500% Money Back Guarantee
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
— Norman Davies
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
— Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God’s Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives
This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.
— Christopher Essex, Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming
I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one thing that separates them from the rest of us is their fearless ability to walk their own path regardless of the opinions of others.
— Gary Hopkins
Open questions like love, life, death, struggle and sex are our experiences, our opinions are not answers but they still remain mysterious unanswered questions. Let it be Open.
— Santosh Kalwar
Your ability is your power. Others’ opinions can make it sour.
— Debasish Mridha
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
— Roy Bennett
I’m very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.
— Neymar
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 opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
— Marcus Aurelius
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