Opinions Quotes

“If the ideas are not exposed to other people in the world, those ideas don’t do us any good.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion.”
― Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

“Most of my opinions are not as informed and well rounded as I would like. I have to be humble enough to accept that I don’t know enough. If my goal is to understand something true, then being challenged is a good thing. We need to be challenged occasionally and to get out of the echo chamber that is your own philosophical group or your own confirmation biased mind. The alternative is to only be able to hear one narrative and for those who oppose that narrative to be silenced, or to have uncivil debate by two polar opposite opinions. Truth is usually found to be hidden in a field of nuance and, as Albert Maysles said, “Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“You're not holding opinions; opinions are holding you and stopping you from reaching the truth which is beyond all opinions.”
― Shunya

“But why dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.”
― Plato, Crito

“In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

“In a world where everyone seems to be an expert of everything, say 'I don't know' more often.”
― Shunya

“I like to write down what I think. So people not sharing my opinion can learn (from me).”
― Laura Chouette

“Weak-minded people will often label you based on what someone else says. Let them think what they think. You are under no obligation to correct someone’s misguided opinion of you.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The Chief seemed not to care much about my opinion; he wanted to talk and so I let him continue. The greatest pleasure one can give people is to let them talk all they want. One is respected much more if one lets people talk instead of talking himself. No one has the least interest in hearing somebody else’s opinion. ("Midnight Call")”
― B. Traven, The Night Visitor and Other Stories

“Conduct yourself in a manner that is worthy of respect and don’t worry about what others think.”
― Bohdi Sanders, Men of the Code: Living as a Superior Man

“How do I handle haters? If my connection to someone disappears when I don’t have wifi, I don’t stress about their opinion. ”
― Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.”
― Temi O'Sola

“I am always my own favorite. That works best for me. Maybe you should try it. Just be your own favorite person and then no one else’s opinion really matters.”
― Roshani Chokshi

“We discard the elderly, but the elderly used to discard the elderly. Those old people we tease are just listening to our insults and not deciding to speak. They’re not stupid. They just understand. Old people are young people who’ve had a few more heartbreaks, thousands of more workdays, and who’ve prepared a dozen more eulogies.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Atticus, forse ti sbagli..."
"Come hai detto?"
"Quasi tutti sembrano pensare di aver ragione loro, e che tu, invece, abbia torto..."
"Hanno sicuramente il diritto di pensarlo, come noi abbiamo il dovere di rispettare le loro opinioni", disse Atticus, "ma prima di vivere con gli altri io devo vivere con me stesso. L'unica cosa che non è tenuta a rispettare il volere della maggioranza è la coscienza”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“To lure you away from your toys, the Guru may show you a brand new toy. But ultimately He wants to free you from all toys.”
― Shunya

“Of cicadas, she would say that they looked like dead leaves fluttering, felt like paper crackling, sounded like fire roaring, smelled like dust rising, and tasted like the devil frying in oil.... You see, in five ways she could sense the world... But it was always the sixth way, her ... sense of importance, that later caused troubles between us. Because her senses led to opinions, and her opinions led to conclusions, and sometimes they were different from mine.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

“Dwarf things. Small things. Little things in relation to the norm. Insignificant things. Things with different dimensions. Curiously, the stories I like the most are made up of trivialities. Details. Trifles. These days, people look to what's big. The big picture, big sales figures, success. Bright lights, interviews, breaking news. Whatever's famous. Importance judged by fame. Maybe small things are subversive. Living on a modest scale compared to the norm. Maybe the dwarf is the hero of our time.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“You’ll find the fewer the facts, the stronger the opinions”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“I don’t want people to think like me. I just want people to think.”
― Tomi Lahren, Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable

“Are you differentiating the personal opinions from professional advice?”
― Loren Weisman

“All other statements of intention, however fully documented, are suspect. The poet may change his mind or mood; he may have intended one thing and done another, and then rationalised what he did.”
― Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism

“A young man will sometimes have all the conviction in the world, only for it all to witness his love interest sway him.”
― Criss Jami

“Aren't they worried about the hydra?"

"They don't believe." Arden's tone was sad[...]"Humans are strange that way. Once they have set their minds on a thing, sometimes all the evidence in the world will not sway their opinion”
― Amy Rae Durreson, Recovery

“I don't like the man--less now than I did before--but I can't help but admire his ... stamina."

"That's dick-thinking."

"Well ..." Roarke glanced down at his own. "It does have opinions.”
― J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death

“The street was very narrow, cobbled with the same color tones as the faded cinnamon-brown buildings that darkened the street with their shade. It had the feel of an alleyway.

Many red flags decorated the walls, spaced only a few yards apart, flapping in the wind that whistled through the narrow lane.

It was crowded, and the foot traffic slowed our progress.

‘Just a little farther,’ Olivia encouraged me; I was gripping the door handle, ready to throw myself into the street as soon as she spoke the word.

She drove in quick spurts and sudden stops, and the people in the crowd shook their fists at us and said angry words that I was glad I could not understand.

She turned onto the little path that could not have been meant for cars; shocked people had to squeeze into doorways as we scraped by.

We found another street at the end. The buildings were taller here; they leaned together overhead so that no sunlight touched the pavement- the thrashing red flags on either side nearly met.

The crowd was thicker here than anywhere else. Olivia stopped the car. I had the door open before we were at a standstill.

She pointed to where the street widened into a patch of bright openness. ‘There were at the southern end of the square. Run straight across, to the right of the clock tower. I'll find a way around-’

Her breath caught suddenly, and when she spoke again, her voice was a hiss.

‘They're everywhere?’

I froze in place, All the same, and all, she pushed me out of the car. ‘Forget about them. You have two minutes. Go, Bell, go!’ she shouted, climbing out of the car as she spoke.

I did not pause to watch Olivia melt into the shadows. I did not stop to close my door behind me. I shoved a heavy woman out of my way and ran flat out, head down, paying little attention to anything All the same and all, the uneven stones beneath my feet.”
― Marcel Ray Duriez, Nevaeh Going in and Out

“فكما أن إحتكاك حجرين يولد ناراً، فإن إحتكاك رأيين يولد نوراً !”
― مصطفى أمين, قلمي يضحك ويبكي

“My greatest enemy is not the person who tells me what I ‘need’ to hear, although we are quick to label them as such. Rather, my greatest enemy is the person who tells me what I ‘want’ to hear, for this is the person who has determined to partner with me in my own destruction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough