Quotes About Opinions

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

People who worry about what others think of them would be surprised at how little they did.

all remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected different opinions.

not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected all different opinions.

If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples' opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.

Man feels so secure in his man-made laws, opinions and beliefs that he invests them with an authority they do not possess. Satisfied that his knowledge is all, he remains unaware that all outward appearances are but states of mind externalised. When he realises that the consciousness of a quality externalises that quality without the aid of any other or many values and establishes the one true value, his own consciousness.

This revelation is so wonderful that when man first hears it he wants to acquire it all at once; but he finds that, after numberless years spent in the belief of being man, he has so completely forgotten his true identity that he is now incapable of absorbing this memory all at once. He also discovers that he can do so only in proportion to his letting go of all human values and opinions.

Yes, though I walk through all the confusion and changing opinions of men, I will fear no evil for I have found consciousness to be that which makes the confusion. Having in my own case restored it to its rightful place and dignity, I shall, in spite of the confusion, outpicture that which I am now conscious of being. And the very confusion will echo and reflect my own dignity.

For the most part we don't realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.

Plenty of people in England thought Napoleon was doing precisely that.

People don't hate each other. They hate each other's ideas.

Ideologies were invented so that men who do not think can give their opinions.

Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist's opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

Let us respect the two poles of man: concrete individual, human spirit. But not the middle zone of an animal with opinions.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

Lewis actually does make a hot girl.

Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.

Mill is particularly concerned that minority opinions should not be silenced just because they are held by very few people. Unfashionable ideas have potential value for the whole of humanity, even if only held by one person: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)

David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.