All Quotes By Tag: Opinions

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”

“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”

“Biker George says God’s voice is not an opinion… It’s a decision. He is not politician trying to win an opinion poll.”

“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”

“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.”

“It’s not objective. It’s subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It’s just what you think, not the truth.”

“Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water.”

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions–one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.”

“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”

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

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”

“What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: “walk your talk”- to know who you are and to be that person- to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities- being confident to walk away from situations where you can’t be yourself- being awake to your own feelings- being free from others’ opinions of you- accepting and loving yourself”

“At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.”