Opinion Quotes

“The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all time are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all time. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“Truthiness.
Alternative facts.
White lies. All kinds
of deceptions
that ultimately do not
serve.

Tell someone you love a meal they've made
that you actually loathe
and you may be eating it
for the rest of your life
(or will you end the very relationship
rather than expose your ostensibly harmless untruth)”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy
whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly,
and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it,
and she cried, believing her world was falling apart.
I made up a kind-of game:
to everything she would say, I would respond
"Is that a fact or an opinion?"
and she had to figure it out and say it outloud--
we played it for hours,
ending up laughing
but she also began to separate
what was actually happening inside the house
from her feelings about it
and her fears.

I feel like I'm still playing "Fact or Opinion"
in my writing,
in the world--
with family, friends,
and, of course, myself.

Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives,
our institutions,
our courts.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy
whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly,
and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it,
and she cried, believing her world was falling apart.
I made up a kind-of game:
to everything she would say, I would respond
'Is that a fact or an opinion?'
and she had to figure it out and say it outloud--
we played it for hours,
ending up laughing
but she also began to separate
what was actually happening inside the house
from her feelings about it
and her fears.

I feel like I'm still playing 'Fact or Opinion'
in my writing,
in the world--
with family, friends,
and, of course, myself.

Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives,
our institutions,
our courts.”
― Shellen Lubin

“After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

“Why would you pour so much energy into a hater’s destructive opinion who doesn’t even pour energy into their own self-development?”
― Richie Norton

“We crave for the good opinion of the world, in which we don't believe, and tremble in face of its condemnation, which we despise and condemn in our hearts.”
― Hermann Sudermann, Regina or the Sins of the Fathers

“Don’t take things too personally. Critique, failures, unwarranted advice - take it to mind, not to heart.

What you hear out of the mouths of others are opinions and perspectives. It’s often worth listening to opinions and perspectives, but it’s not a requisite that you take them on board.”
― Nate Hamon

“There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.”
― John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 1

“Canceling’ a conversation never eliminates the opinion that you didn’t have the ability to refute.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every opinion, every belief and even every firm conviction and certainty is a leap of faith. We just have to sort out the useful ones.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Nobody believed he was really quite born” - a proverb for a nobody (referring to Claudius)”
― Seneca, Apocolocyntosis

“If you can´t say something nice, don´t say nothing at all. (Thumper from the Disney movie Bambi)”
― Felix Salten

“Correct professional advise or opinion in any aspect of our life represents general God's voice and mind in that area. Unless one has a specific word or instruction from God contrary to the professional opinion, it should be treated as personal revelation for private use and not for general public.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion.

- On Optimism”
― Samuel Johnson

“Darwin did not change the islands, but only people’s opinion of them. That was how important mere opinions used to be back in the era of great big brains.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Galápagos

“Avoid jumping into conclusion. This may cause your idea fractured!”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta, Scientific Computing in Python

“We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily opinion.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1975

“The opinion is only one part of the person.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Opinions are the defenses we have clandestinely built against our own conscience.”
― Deepak Kripal, Sense of a Quiet

“To be distracted by the agendas or opinions of others is to keep us at a distance from our dreams.”
― Anna Moore Bradfield

“Fact based on opinion is neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lie claims that it is only a lie by opinion, which will never allow a lie to be anything other than a lie.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When your right is wrong, then wrong is your right.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Sometimes the evidence of everything that I wish were not evidence points me to all of the things that I’ve spent my life attempting to build evidence against.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Maybe we should come to our opinions by using wisdom, logic, evidence, so much of those things that we know we are right and can't be swayed. Then we should hope for an argument against us that makes us think, "I could be wrong", and be willing to listen”
― Lee Goff

“The two of you are very different, but people of good character can disagree and still be admirable.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Carved in Stone

“What is real, what is not. Who can tell. We inhabit different worlds.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“It's true. The older you get, the more you stop caring about other’s opinions of you. It is a freeing feeling.”
― Robin S. Baker

“A fool’s argument must constantly be fed by increasingly absurd rationalizations in order to maintain some disintegrating shred of legitimacy. And at some point the argument will have run its course to the degree that no amount of feeding will be able to sustain it. And at that point, the fool is forced to declare that the death of the argument was the very thing that legitimized its existence. And in the end, the only thing that’s legitimized is the fact that the person who builds their life on a bunch of dead arguments is, in fact, a legitimate fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough