Quotes About Opinions

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.

it is hard to be angry or defensive with someone who seems to agree with your opinions and tastes. Charmers may appear to be weaker than their targets but in the end they are the more powerful side because they have stolen the ability to resist.

Conforming to social norms, you will listen more to others than to your own voice.

Daily Law: When it comes to the ideas and opinions you hold, see them as toys or building blocks that you are playing with. Some you will keep, others you will knock down, but your spirit remains flexible and playful. The Laws of Human Nature, 7: Soften People's Resistance by Confirming Their Self-Opinion—The Law of Defensiveness

We all believe we are masters in the realm of opinions and reasoning. You must be careful, then: Learn to demonstrate the correctness of your ideas indirectly.

The truth is that we humans live on the surface, reacting emotionally to what people say and do. We form opinions of others and ourselves that are rather simplified. We settle for the easiest and most convenient story to tell ourselves.

Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think.

Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality.

The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: 'What disturbs and alarms man are not the things but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result.

You cannot please everyone

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

Presidents and Congress expect senior military leaders to provide their personal and professional military opinions candidly and honestly. There is no requirement for them to do so through the news

Joe is a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you could turn to for help in a personal crisis. Still, I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.

I avoid opinions," Nissim said. "It's easier that way to accept both answers equally, and deny both of them at the same time. That's how I treat problems that I don't understand.

If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!

Haz lo que tu corazón te diga que es lo correcto porque de todas formas te van a criticar. Mal si lo haces y mal si no lo haces.

Noise is either created inside our heads or comes from outside, often from friends, family, co-workers, and the media.

said, most people are in financial trouble today simply because they've taken too many shortcuts and are making their life's financial decisions based upon opinions (often the opinions of an E or an S) and not the facts.

Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter!

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.