Quotes About Opinions

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Tenemos opiniones definidas acerca de cómo hacer las cosas y de cómo deberían ser los otros. Estas opiniones carecen de comprensión, porque cuanto más definitivas son las opiniones, tanto más necesario es que no nos distraigamos comprendiendo demasiado a los que queremos cambiar".

She thinks hockey and football are very dangerous.

What if some man wanted to tell me how many feet from a dwelling a cesspool needed to be? What if he wanted to talk about the pros and cons of raising the mortgage rate? What if he wanted to talk about his childhood? Or worse, mine!

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

We should be eternally vigilant against the attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

To approve of another man's opinions is to adopt those opinions, and to adopt them is to approve of them.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Our weak understanding of our needs is aggravated by what Epicurus termed 'idle opinions' of those around us, which do not reflect the natural hierarchy of our needs, emphasizing luxury and riches, seldom friendship, freedom and thought. The prevalence of idle opinion is no coincidence. It is in the interest of commercial enterprises to slew the hierarchy of our needs, to promote a material vision of good and downplay an unsaleable one.

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For

And when people commend someone for "thinking for herself" they usually mean "ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.

To think independently of other human beings is impossible, and if it were possible it would be undesirable. Thinking is necessarily, thoroughly, and wonderfully social. Everything you think is a response to what someone else has thought and said. And when people commend someone for "thinking for herself" they usually mean "ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.

It's not your job to decide whether people should think you're important or not, hey? Huh? What others think of us is none of our business. Maybe you're more important than you give yourself credit for. This could be God's way of showing you something you should know but don't.

You shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying something that other people don't. Well, apart from torture, but that's probably the only exception

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.

We form many of our political opinions through reading papers and unconsciously absorbing the rhetoric of the journalists. Later, we spout the same opinions as our own. This parallels the way we respond to any authority and its something politicians understand well.

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.

The notion of the measuring scale is critical in Hindu thought. The value of an object depends on the scale being followed. And since all scales are man-made, all values are artificial. Thus all opinions ultimately are delusions, based on man-made measuring scales.