Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

Mill believed the pursuit of truth required the collation and combination of ideas and propositions, even those that seem to be in opposition to each other. He urged us to allow others to speak-and then to listen to them- for three main reasons: First, the other person's idea, however controversial it seems today, might turn out to be right. ("The opinion may possibly be true.") Second, even if our opinion is largely correct, we hold it more rationally and securely as a result of being challenged. ("He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.") Third, and in Mill's view most likely, opposing views may each contain a portion of the truth, which need to be combined. ("Conflicting doctrines share the truth between them.")

Most people’s lives are to the average person not important like, or as important as, their opinions about him or her.

Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn’t important to know. It’s okay if people are mad at me, and it’s okay if people think I’m a complete idiot—as long as I’m doing my best. Just because certain people might have judgments about me, it does not mean they have authority over me. To truly form my own life, I had to ask questions like ‘What are my needs? And ‘What are my thoughts?’ I had to acknowledge both my strengths and my weaknesses. I had to form my own opinions based on my reality instead of someone else’s.

My modest opinion is- a baby’s name should not be longer. It can be of 2 or 3 words. Say, if someone’s name is Alif Chowdhury, it is needless to keep a nickname; he can be called Alif!

Never allow yourself to be defined by some else's opinion of you....unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.

Political flattery is political prostitution, but not political opinion.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.

priority changes when opinion changes

Privilege" is something else. "Privilege" is a judgment. "Privilege" is an opinion. "Privilege" is an accusation.

My opinion of me is what sets the tone of my personality

Never judge an eagle by the opinion of turkeys.

Never jump to a conclusion, even if the whole world is leaping towards it.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Nothing is more like nothing than mere opinion.

No two people see things the same.

Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.

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

One day he’ll realize he is and was wrong. But that’s for him to figure out. You can’t change people or make them realize things they don’t want to see.

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

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.

Opinion is a product of the human mind – but it is not knowledge.

Opinion is never a fact. And fact is never a truth.

Opinions, opinions, opinions abound - I do believe that this, here, opinion is sound.

Opinions must not be reactionary, they are built with research and intricately crafted by keen observation.

...Opinion without a rational process.

Opinion is neither fake nor fact, perspective is neither lie nor truth. Accept the act of listening but don't follow everything you listen. Accept the lie of art and realize the truth.

Opinions are a useless currency

Opinions sway; facts remain unswerving.

Our society at large has lost its ability to distinguish between opinion and fact, and between a threat and an opinion. This is due to the fact that many people are focused on making their opinions into facts—which causes them to react irrationally when others express different opinions, which they perceive as a threat to their personal reality.

People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments.

People fail to realize that horror isn’t just monsters and death. Sometimes, it’s learning to accept the darkness of human nature.

People sometimes express beliefs that are not their own.

People will hold an opinion because they want to keep the company of others who share the opinion, or because they think it is the respectable opinion, or because they have publicly expressed the opinion in the past and would be embarrassed by a “U-turn,” or because the world would suit them better if the opinion were true, or . . . Perhaps it is better to get on with your family and friends, to avoid embarrassment, or to comfort yourself with fantasies than to believe the truth. But those who approach matters in this way should give up any pretensions to intellectual seriousness. They are not genuinely interested in reality.

Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

Personal opinions rarely mirror the absolute truth yet always reflect the absolution of personal ignorance.

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it opens to us a thousand different ways on which we can embark in all confidence; we are assured of meeting there no obstacles; but of all these ways, which will lead us most promptly to our goal? Who shall tell us which to choose? We need a faculty which makes us see the end from afar, and intuition is this faculty. It is necessary to the explorer for choosing his route; it is not less so to the one following his trail who wants to know why he chose it.

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

Raise the bar higher than your opinion...

Ray was always of the opinion that a handful was more than enough. Anything else just tends to sag, once it’s out of a bra.