Quotes About Opinions And Truth

#1. Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Jack McDevitt

#2. I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. I want to honor Jesus with the things I say and the things I choose not to say. Lord, help us all be so careful with sharing opinions as if they are truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Lysa TerKeurst

#6. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Jane Austen

#7. The truth is, the NFL will never respect women and their opinions as long as the media it answers to doesn't. I'm ready when you are, Fox.

Katie Nolan

#8. There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Sivananda

#9. You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

Parmenides

#10. The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth ... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

Susan Sontag

#11. Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

Socrates

#12. His words are the essence of truth ... Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

David Novak

#14. If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don't want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions.

Jeff Wheeler

#15. Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Rupert Sheldrake

#16. New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

Albert Einstein

#18. The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Opinions are not facts; and neither are most facts.

Marty Rubin

#20. One-dimensional opinions can create enormous errors in our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. These errors can have unforeseen consequences in our lives and the lives of organizations, communities, and nations.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Hence words are learnt; hence eloquence is to be attained, most necessary to persuade people to your way of thinking, and to unfold your opinions." So, in truth, we should never have understood these words,

Augustine Of Hippo

#22. And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

Rene Descartes

#23. What takes the power out of that great, intimidating consciousness of external evaluation and steadies our hearts once again is the truth that the opinions of man do not count before God.

Anna Blanc

#24. Discussions do not lead to definite conclusions. The Srutis are divided in opinion. And there is not a single Rishi whose opinions can be accepted as conclusive. Truth about religious matters is hidden in caves. Therefore that is the proper path which has been followed by great men.

Mahabharata

#25. He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

Daniel Defoe

#26. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think ...

John Stuart Mill

#27. In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.

Barbara Forrest

#28. For the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Blaise Pascal

#29. Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#30. Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

Michel De Montaigne

#31. But here's the thing: other people's opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and labels them with Sharpies, yet those boxes are lies. They flatten us; they limit who we really are. Feminism

Kelly Jensen

#32. Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be "born again" before it is believed.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#34. All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

Pema Chodron

#35. The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.

C. JoyBell C.

#36. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self

Trent Shelton

#37. It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy.

Debasish Mridha

#38. The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.

Charles F. Glassman

#39. One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.

Katherine Anne Porter

#40. ...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

Socrates

#41. I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

Dennis Christopher

#42. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions of people and events are based on objective evaluation. THE TRUTH: You translate your physical world into words, and then believe those words.

David McRaney

#43. The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#44. My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Ezra Miller

#45. One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.

Tony Evans

#46. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

Galileo Galilei

#47. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

#48. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."

Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

Patrick Rothfuss

#49. Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.

Gustave Le Bon

#50. Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#51. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Patrick Henry

#52. As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.

Sherry Turkle

#53. The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.

Shannon L. Alder

#54. Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

Viera Scheibner

#55. It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.

Horatius Bonar

#56. You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.

Jodi Picoult