Quotes About Opinions

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

What people think of you is none of your business.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Mr. President," he began, addressing Washington, "I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them." He suggested that he might, one day, change his mind. "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. [ Blog post, March 12, 2012 ]

But 'I worked hard on this' doesn't exempt you from criticism. Those harsh reviews aren't about anyone being out to get me. It's not an Authors vs. Reviewers thing. It's people taking the time to express their opinions because they care about this stuff." [ Us vs. Them vs. Grow the Hell Up (Blog post, September 1, 2013)]

An infinite number of monkeys have said an infinite number of things about the Hugos this year. People on all sides have said intelligent and insightful things, and people on all sides have said asinine things. The amount of words spent on this makes the Wheel of Time saga look like flash fiction.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

The fatal problem for the media, the official media, is that it is now in direct competition with social media, the unofficial media. All of the opinions that had been so carefully suppressed by the mainstream have suddenly got an airing and have proved widely popular because the people have been starved of them so long. They always wanted this kind of material, but the media deliberately prevented them from getting it. The West is now having its own Samizdat Moment, and loving it.

Facts are neither right nor wrong; they simply are. Opinions are personal assessments and are right or wrong depending on whether they actually correspond with the facts. Therefore, only opinions can be right or wrong; facts cannot. Right and wrong are inappropriate for the description of business operations and market participation, and so are the terms win and lose. Participating in markets is not about being right or wrong, nor is it about defeat; it's about making decisions.

Decision making is a process of reaching a conclusion after careful consideration; it is a judgment, a choice between alternatives when all the facts are not yet, and cannot yet, be known because they depend on events unfolding in the future. Therefore, decision making is not a choice between right and wrong. In 20/20 hindsight, decisions might be good or bad but not right or wrong. With regard to the markets, only expressed opinions can be right or wrong.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Enfim, cada um o que quer aprova, o senhor sabe: pão ou pães, é questão de opiniães… O sertão está em toda a parte.

Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.

As always, in matters of surpassing human interest, those who knew nothing whatever either at first or even second hand were the most emphatic in expressing their opinions; which are well known to have a way of turning into established facts overnight.

But if the kid is really, really, really ugly, I'll think What the hell? and just give up and say, 'Where'd you buy the crib?

Living is hard and judging is easy.

By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.

A man who does't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

Words of kindness had always been more difficult for me to handle than harsh reprimands. Ever since I had been quite young, I could resist those who went against me, had been able to deny their opinions. My inner strength came from an ability to handle, then separate myself from, adversity. Compassion, however, brought up more raw emotion than judgments could ever stir.