Opinions Quotes

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There are those who feel that the world is ultimately moving closer to Truth and to prosperity as the times evolve; then there are those who feel that it is ultimately moving farther away from Truth and into self-destruction. From this, and if it were really that simplistic, one might get the impression that life gravitates slightly into two types of people whom which are diametrically opposed in spirit.

~ Criss Jami

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance, nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions, nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

~ Criss Jami

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

~ Criss Jami

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

~ Ron Chernow

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

~ Germany Kent

The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active part - not its effects in the man of action. In the man of action, moral relativism and scepticism as to the absolute and universal value of his priunciples are no obstacle to a fanatical belief in their immediate value as his own clan at the actual moment; they do not weaken in the least his will to impose his principles. How should he glimpse a soul of truth in the principles of others, entitling them to respect, when he does not believe in noble origins of this kind even for his own principles?

~ Bertrand De Jouvenel

Don't react to any angry actions, words and behaviours. Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you focus your attention more on your dreams and goals and less on the opinions of others, you are capable of achieving success. No one knows the desires of your heart better than you.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Don’t let the opinions of others interfere with your true perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Opinions are a useless currency

~ Amy Neftzger

When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.

~ Criss Jami

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

~ Criss Jami

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

~ Thomas À Kempis

The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self.

~ Criss Jami

Don’t allow anyone to pollute your mind with negative thoughts and negative words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your ability is your power. Others’ opinions can make it sour.

~ Debasish Mridha

These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I often get asked the question, 'If you had to compare your writing to an author who would it be?' My answer is always the same; the author I compare myself to is me. Every writer has a unique style relevant to only themselves. I am nothing like other authors; some aspects of my writing may have similarities to another, but in the end, each and every one of us is different.

~ Ashley Tia Long

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

~ Marcel Proust

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

~ Bertrand Russell

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

~ Criss Jami

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

~ Anthony Liccione

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

~ William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.

~ Heather Chapple

Don't have an opinion about a person until you know them. And then when you do know the person, know him or her in such a way that you won't even think of having any opinions about them! Because you know them enough to believe that your opinions wouldn't matter, anyway. Because the importance of your opinions dim in the light of their meaningful souls. This is how to love humanity.

~ C. Joybell C.

They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...

~ Kate Morton

Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.

~ Scott Hutchins

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pundits and parents, Why?

~ Thomas Cathcart

I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else to do so they have a child because that will keep them busy for a while. Then to justify to the kid the reason he exists they tell him there's such a thing as love and that's where you come from because me and your daddy or me and your mommy were in love and that's why you exist. When actually it was because they were bored out of their minds.

~ Richard Hell