#opinions

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#teamwork #leadership

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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#attitudes #beauty #creativity #opinions #public

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#be-yourself #dreams #happiness #love #opinions

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#criticism #opinions #philosophy #thought #education

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

— Eric Hirzel

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

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#opinions #philosophy #relativism #wisdom #religion

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

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

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

— Joseph Joubert

#stubbornness #stupidity #love