Quotes About Opinions

Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing. People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, no cluster against the busy breast of the big town. (p 56)

next thing is opinions. You and me is always busting out with opinions. Hell Susy, we ain't got no opinions. We just say stuff we heard or seen in the movies. We're scared we'll miss something, like running for the bus. That's the second rule: lay off opinions because you really ain't got any.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

My family had liberal positions.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

The only opinion of you that is important, is God's. Focus on living your life, and let the opinions of others be what they are.

In order to make the most out of your life, you must first take control of your life and not let people's opinions or your past negative experiences shape the direction your life is headed in. Once you do that, just set your mind on your goal, reach for the stars and you will accomplish your dreams!

I'm human, so I make mistakes. Some small, some big. But they don't define me, nor do opinions. I'm perfectly imperfect, & if you think about it, so are you.

Either you're going to be hated or just misunderstood.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we dont have to agree with everyone, everyone doesnt have to agree with us, and thats OK.

If you worry of what people have to say about you, you will always be very worried.

Don't let other people's opinions define you or bring you down. Keep the faith and always trust yourself.

You shouldn't let other people's opinions affect what you do in life.

We have an identity that we have constructed, a me, which is a combination of memories, feelings, opinions, and experiences.