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.

‘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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men’s opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

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.

We’re bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.

The soldier’s business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman’s function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.