Quotes About Opinions

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

We're an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I'd stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he's the one out here helping.

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people's point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base motive to every one who supported a better case than he.

Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn't mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.

May I remind you that I'm paying you, very well"—she raised a brow, appreciating the ease of banter they'd shared since the outset of their association—"to carry my equipment and assist me in my work, not to offer opinions on my decisions." "Ain't no extra charge for them, ma'am. They's free." She shook her head at his broad smile.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Everyone was talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

Opinions are like assholes everyone's got one, but some stink worse than others!

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

441. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

When I started 'CNN ' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

Proverbs 18:2 speaks to this issue with penetrating insight: "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don't listen at all. They are deciding what to say. Don't be such a parent. The Proverbs remind you that the fool does not delight in understanding, but in airing his own opinion (Proverbs 18:2).

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

I like Twitter because I'm a creature of the short-attention span theater. I can get a lot of sports opinions and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.

I don't like to talk about what other players think because, as we say in Spanish, every person is a world, their own world.

I just can't be with someone who's afraid to voice their opinions, or who can't butt heads once in a while. I'm a straight shooter, and I think a bit of that spark is healthy in any kind of relationship.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

Here's what I've learned about Hillary Clinton: She will be criticized when she speaks; she will be criticized when she doesn't speak. And so I think she should speak her mind.