Opinions Quotes

“How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.”
― Eric Hirzel

“The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.”
― Eric Hirzel

“Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“If you feel the need to confront others that have talked bad about you that shows that you value their opinion of you. Take them off the pedestal and know they're not worthy of your thoughts, actions or words.”
― Bianca Frazier

“Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1

“I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.”
― Richard Dawkins

“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don’t take it personally, it’s simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions.”
― Werner Von Braun

“I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the previous generation invents to justify having created you. You know I think the real reason children are born is because parents are so bored they have children to amuse themselves. They're so bored they don't have anything else to do so they have a child because that will keep them busy for a while. Then to justify to the kid the reason he exists they tell him there's such a thing as love and that's where you come from because me and your daddy or me and your mommy were in love and that's why you exist. When actually it was because they were bored out of their minds.”
― Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

“No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone”
― Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone

“If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots.”
― Shawnda Currie

“In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he had some money on the horses, and if he won, he would buy his own taxicab, and really do well.

I felt very sorry. I told him that betting on the horses was a bad idea, but he insisted it was the only way he could do it. He had such good intentions, but his method was going to be luck.

I wasn't going to go on philosophizing, so he took me to a place where there was a steel band playing some great calypso music, and I had an enjoyable afternoon.”
― Richard Feynman

“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”
― Abigail Biddinger

“Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie.”
― Jean Cocteau

“A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Tener opiniones es estar vendido a uno mismo. No tener opiniones es existir. Tener todas las opiniones es ser poeta.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“We do not have forever to say whatever. For with every single day that goes by, the odds of our opinion(s) being read or heard diminishes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There can be so many suggestions and opinions too; What matters is that you acknowledge at your depths and stand by it like a Rock...”
― Dinesh Kumar, Destiny Re scripted

“It wasn't chance at all, Gilly. People are yearning creatures. They imagine and strive and hope. Stories about an enchanted band of vagabonds existed before the Carnival itself. But those fairy tales become the focal point of billions of daydreams, and eventually those daydreams condensed like vapor into something real. The Carnival only exists because you want it to, you and everyone else. So why's it peculiar that, when you wanted to find it, a path came into existence too?”
― Kristopher Reisz, Tripping to Somewhere