Quotes About Our Own Opinions

#1. You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene - except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

Mort Crim

#3. Let us not be false witnesses for Christ, changing the doctrine of God to suit our own opinions.

Adam Houge

#4. Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Epictetus

#5. This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.

Thomas A Kempis

#6. We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#7. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.

Epictetus

#8. That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

Sheri Fink

#9. Good Morning," she said.
"We all have our own opinions about that, Mrs. Rayne.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson I

#11. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. 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.

Zhuangzi

#13. Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

Joseph Addison

#14. In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

John Lancaster Spalding

#16. I don't believe we need to sympathize with opposing views; I do believe we need to develop the capacity to acknowledge and empathize with conflicting opinions that are as passionately defended as our own.

Chris Rhyss Edwards

#17. When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#18. In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team ... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.

Paul Weller

#19. A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

Diane Dreher

#20. I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

Melissa Etheridge

#21. As evangelicals who believe that God has revealed Himself in Scripture, we come to the text not to hear our own voice, but God's voice; not our opinions, but God's truth.

Grant Lovejoy

#22. I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#23. Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

P. M. Forni

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

Friedrich Schiller

#25. [W]hen we speak about people based on what we think, feel, or hope rather than on what we observe or experience, we deprive them of their humanity. We have replaced what they are, in all their fluid vitality, with our own crystallised ideas, opinions, and beliefs.

Steve Hagen

#26. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#27. All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

Joseph Murphy

#28. Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.

William Hazlitt

#29. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we

Thomas Paine

#30. All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Michel De Montaigne

#31. I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

#32. Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Samuel Butler

#34. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#35. I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Dawna Markova

#36. Most people never think beyond their birth. But if I had contented myself with everyone else's opinions of me, I wouldn't be the man I am today. People like us make our own destinies, Gwenwhyfar - and to the waves with the naysayers who oppose us.

Jennifer McKeithen

#37. Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

Thomas Sowell

#38. Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Michel De Montaigne

#39. In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.

Marianne Williamson

#40. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Brigham Young

#41. What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#42. Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

Thomas Browne

#43. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.

Felicia Johnson

#44. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.

Libba Bray