Opinions Quotes

“When we are telling something about others, we are telling a lot about ourselves too.

"The Sun rises and sets each day." This sounds like a statement about the Sun. But it is actually a statement about us, about our planet. It tells that we and our planet is moving, not the Sun.”
― Shunya

“Judging the things you do not understand is like a game of gambling where setbacks are often than success.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The funny thing about truth, everyone seems to have their own version.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“A judging eye can’t see beyond the outfits. When you drop all judgements and the light of awareness shines in you, true nature of everyone gets revealed before you.”
― Shunya

“Question the opinions, don't question the facts.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It's important to note that most judgmental mom shamers don't actually see themselves as judgmental mom shamers. They just like to share their opinions. Out loud. So here's a really easy, single-question quiz to figure out if you're an ass or not: Does every opinion you have need to be voiced? If your answer is yes, you're an ass.”
― Kristina Kuzmic, Hold On, But Don't Hold Still

“Things are complicated. Don’t judge someone as good or bad. If you have already judged, don’t waste your energy in trying to prove that your judgement is right.”
― Shunya

“The opinion that is void of fact is given birth at the hands of the person void of thought.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In my opinion, love is not a feeling. But love creates a feeling that never vanishes.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“They have not walked in your shoes; don’t put much stock in their opinions.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“We can have opinions and thoughts only about things which are or were incomplete and imperfect. The Supreme Power is, was and always will be absolute and complete.

Human mind doesn't want Him. We want to have opinions and thoughts. We want a game, a reality show in which we can vote.”
― Shunya

“The universe is so complete in itself that anything is possible here. Even horses can fly in some realm. Don’t waste your energy in defending and holding onto your beliefs and opinions. Let that energy enrich your experiences instead.”
― Shunya

“Not just on body, we wear clothes on our mind too. Opinions and prejudices are like tightly stitched clothes. It’s OK if you wear them while dealing with the outside world. That too is not suggested for seekers.

Faith and trust are like comfortable unstitched clothes. You must wear them inside home with loved ones.”
― Shunya

“We can rightly say that the thinning of the ozone layer is a scientific fact; it's not simply an opinion. But if the way we work with trying not to further harm the ozone layer is to solidify our opinion against those we feel are at fault, then nothing ever changes; negativity begets negativity. In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Thinking that someone is wrong is a very common way of being wrong.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They included me, and I spoke up when I could, but mostly I listened. "What do you think Sammie?" Stewart would ask. And eventually I just had to tell them that most of the time, I didn't know. "I'm sort of a sponge," I said, and could feel my mouth get dry. "I have a few strong opinions, but they might change. I just want to find out everything I can.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“An opinion is not to be respected simply because somebody holds it. More or less any obnoxious viewpoint one can think up is probably held by somebody somewhere. There are right-wing Afrikaners who believe that Nelson Mandela was evil.”
― Terry Eagleton, Culture

“Whether we regard someone’s opinion as a fact or as an opinion depends on whether they are criticizing or complimenting us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“At one side, there are people who blindly follow everything ancient. Give them poison in an antique bottle, they will drink it. At the other side, there are people who blindly worship everything modern. Even if you give them the nectar of immortality in an antique bottle, they will discard it. Don’t let your prejudices about bottles deprive you of the content inside them.”
― Shunya

“Your opinions about me is none of my business.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If someone giving negative opinions about you, it means that they are trying to reduce your value by matching their own thinking level, simply ignore.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“You don't think
I'll be arrested
if I wear my brain
on the
OUTSIDE
of my head?”
― Ted Mallory, Max Nix: Poems

“We gather up a few thin blades of meadow grass and call them the meadow, when the meadow itself rolls off to horizons that escape our view.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I don’t think of myself as a contrarian. I’m useless at confrontation. But I also can’t stand dogma, lazy ideas, catchphrases, group-think, illogic, pathos disguised as logos, shoutiness, ad hominem attacks, bombast, liberal piety, conservative pomposity, ideologues, essentialists, technocrats, preachers, fanatics, cheerleaders or bullies. Like everybody, I am often guilty of some version of all of the above, but I do think the job of writing is to at least try and minimise that sort of thing as much as you can.”
― Zadie Smith

“I don't have to agree with everything someone says, but everyone has something I could assimilate to make my own insight stronger and clearer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“...as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts.”
― Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“Exhibitions are precisely what we
shouldn’t trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there’s a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can’t do those things in an exhibition.”
― Aaron Levy, Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse

“I focused so much on my conscious mind that I forgot about the one beneath it, the one that wanted to talk but could only whisper. I'd suffocate those whispers and I'd feed the silence, but it was still there, hidden but not discreet as it pierced my insides with the sharpness of its thorns, growing inside me within the darkness of my soul. I continued to pretend it wasn't there, that I was okay. Because everyone else's opinions, although they shouldn't matter, they did. They did and it made all the fucking difference.”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“confidence without clarity
is a disaster in life.”
― Thomas Ayim, Black Love: Has Slavery Really Stopped? Poems