#opinions

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

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#stubbornness #stupidity #love

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#down #i #know #millions #nothing

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. ↗

— John Tyler

#being #being responsible #conscience #created #fellow

Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#casting #everything #gentleman #hair #his

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #writing #opinions

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. ↗

— John Morley

#even #good #hold #intelligent #little

A great many people mistake opinions for thought. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#many #mistake #opinions #people #thought

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#caring #counted #formulate #lie #luxury