Browsing Topic Best Opinion Quotes

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

When you understand every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will start to understand that all judgment is a confession.

Discover yourself, otherwise, you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

‘No’ and ‘Yes’ are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions.

How can a man respect his wife when he has a contemptible opinion of her and her sex?

In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.

Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the ‘epic’ one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.