#opinio

Why did you ask me to live with you? Werewolves hate vampires.” “I don’t,” said Kyle.” I’m not too fond of their kind, though.” He jabbed a finger at Jace. “They think they’re better than everyone else.” “No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.” Kyle looked at Simon. “Does he always talk like this?” “Yes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #sarcastic #opinions

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#date #friends #i #opinionated #people

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? ↗

— Lord Byron

#changed #got #how #made #opinions

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 of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#mrs-general #opinions #education

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#faith #knowledge #opinion #presumption #faith

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#entrenched #in my opinion #opinion #out #reality

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." [Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom #freedom-of-speech #liberty #minorities #persecution

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#everyone #facts #his #opinion #own

The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter. ↗

— Eric Hirzel

#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions