#opinio

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#christ #christian #opinions #christ

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#feedback #opinions #outspokenness #responses #responsibility

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#public-opinion #influence

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#opinions #wrong #observation

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lives #most #opinions #other #passions

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#judging #matthew #opinions

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#opinions

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#public-opinion #self-esteem #self-esteem

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explain #gossip #life #people #public-opinion

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#every man #facts #his #man #opinion