#pinions

Freedom rings where opinions clash. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#clash #opinions #rings #where

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#dad #even #i #just #me

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ↗

— Bob Wells

#body #bone #form #man #meet

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. ↗

— Robert G. Allen

#attention #average #average man #crazy #dream

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#information

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#pride #vanity #vanity

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. ↗

— Thomas More

#human-nature #opinions #love

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most. ↗

— John Wyndham

#change #death #exploration #life #opinions

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned. ↗

— Stacy Verdick Case

#inspirational #motivational #opinions #self-realization #inspirational

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt