Quotes About Opinions

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

One cannot save the individual in the world, one can only defend the individual in oneself. The spiritual man's highest achievement is always freedom, freedom from people, from opinions, from things, freedom to himself.

on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being bothered to do things, and laughing at the kind of joke other people didn't think at all funny, and going for country walks, and not being asked to express opinions about things (like love, and isn't so-and-so peculiar?)

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.

Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.