Quotes on Opinion

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.