Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

You can’t care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it’s NOT the time to be satisfying other people’s opinions. The...

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God’s special possession.

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has...

As our inclinations, so our opinions

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

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...

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...

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains...

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself...

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works,...

It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

Read things you’re sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you’re a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you’re a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you’re a Rush Limbaugh fan, read...

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

I respect your opinion unless your opinion disrespects anybody’s existence

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

People’s opinions have moved up and down on the project over time. That’s to be expected.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

I don’t argue with opinions, and I don’t argue with opinions. I don’t argue against them, and I don’t argue using them.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.

People will always have their opinions; I’ve come to learn whose matter.

It’s as simple as this. When people don’t unload their opinions and feel like they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

Opinion’s but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before...

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

We’re a union of 700 players and there are going to be different opinions. But I personally appreciate the job Trevor, Ted and the executive committee have done. Ted is a big part of this...

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it’s other people one can’t satisfy. One thinks one’s way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are...

a Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century...

I want you to judge me without thinking about it.I want you to give me advice without considering my opinion.I want you to expecting anything without the need to trust me.I want you to decide...

REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.

In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!

Whatever we decide we don’t want in life (whether it’s dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

she can’t keep the opinions about the Jewish people to herself … She has disturbing views on the Jewish people that are unacceptable to us.

It’s a fact that you’re going to have a different opinion or view on certain topics or issues. You need stand your ground by sharing your view.

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them,...

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one’s opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Other people’s heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up…

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced....

Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated “I am interested in...