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.

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.

Impossible is just an opinion.

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

‘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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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.

You have to be your own person. You can’t let people’s opinions determine how you think about yourself. There’s a difference between identity and self-identity.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don’t know what my public image is. I have no idea.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else’s belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation – and a risk.

One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership — you are practicing followership.