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As individuals, everybody has their own opinions, beliefs, dogmas, and definitions about themselves and their world.
And ironically, everybody firmly believes my opinion is right and needs to be appreciated.
Since everybody thinks that way, the world locks horns, and there is constant friction in relationships. And this constant difference of opinion without understanding facts is the root cause of all evil in the world.
How to have better relationships with the world?
Firstly, just like you, everybody has the right to have an opinion according to their personality and cultural background.
Everybody is the same mentally. Your mind and my mind tendencies are basically the same at a deeper level.
Both our minds want to feel superior and dominate the other through their opinion.
The more you stop worrying about your self-image in front of others, the better you can freely listen to other’s viewpoints and judgments and not get affected by them mentally.
And remember, this fact, as life changes, situations and events take different paths, your opinion too will keep changing from time to time.
Life means time, and time means to change. So, do not take a hard stand over your changing options and get all emotional over somebody’s opinion about you.
If we can really live that way, life becomes very joyful as you become freer and freer mentally. And public opinion will have less meaning because now you know very well that similar to individual opinion, societies’ collective mentality too will keep changing its directions.
How to live a life of inner conviction?
Thoughts rise and fall, but love and oneness are all that connect and keep us together in this otherwise loveless world.
Let Osho’s wise sayings help us understand the underlying problems of making a quick opinion, and hence remaining restless throughout life, ‘ If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.’
Our ego always loves taking sides and quickly want to conclude. Instead, it never wants to look at the direct fact of a happening.
It also never wants to look at its own mistakes and shortcomings; instead quickly blames the world for its misfortunes. And gets mentally disturbed, reacts without understanding, gets hurt, and entertains unnecessary arguments in day-to-day living.
Let Stoic philosopher Epictetus’s words echo on never to allow opinions of any kind to rule us inwardly, ‘ No man is disturbed by things, but his opinion about things.’
We hope these inspirational and thought-provoking opinion quotes and sayings help us live a more truthful life than fall into the honey traps of mental tendencies.
Best Opinion Quotes and Sayings
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
– Arnold H. Glasow
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.
– Osho
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never judge someone by the opinion of others.
– Unknown
If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.
– Steve Maraboli
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
– Steve Jobs
It’s funny how people have strong opinions on things they know nothing about.
– Unknown
No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
– Epictetus
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
– Joseph Joubert
Inquire not what are the opinions of any one; but inquire what is truth.
– John Calvin
If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
– John Scalzi
Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.
– Edward Counsel
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
– Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions.
– Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone has the right to their own opinions¦ Yours is just wrong.
– Unknown
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
– William Blake
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
– Harlan Ellison
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
– Alfred Austin
There are as many opinions as there are people.
– Terence
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
– Walter Raleigh
An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!
– Marie Corelli
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
– Thomas Mann
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
– Les Brown
Just because they disagree, doesn’t mean you ain’t right.
– Toba Beta
Don’t let your opinion sway your judgment.
– Samuel Goldwyn
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
– Plato
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem not yours.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
– Roberto Bolano
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
– Mark Twain
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your opinion is not my reality.
– Steve Maraboli
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
– Kurt Cobain
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
– Thomas Carlyle
Don’t let other people’s opinions of you, what you say and what you do influence who you are.
– Unknown
Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.
– Abraham Miller
The opinion of the strongest is always the best.
– Jean de la Fontaine
I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.
– Ray Bradbury
Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.
– George H.W. Bush
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
– Douglas Adams
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
– John F. Kennedy
Opinions don’t affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you’re rational.
– Ricky Gervais
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
– Bernard Baruch
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Public opinion is the God of democracy and the journalist is his prophet.
– Evan Esar
Public opinion is what people think other people think.
– Evan Esar
Of all the opinions which people entertain, the best one is that which they have of themselves.
– Evan Esar
A man is no greater than his wife’s opinion.
– Evan Esar
The proof that many a man is a poor judge of human nature is the good opinion he hold of himself.
– Evan Esar
Beliefs lead to behaviors which lead to actions, which lead to results.
– Monica L. Wofford
To change results, work on beliefs before behaviors or attitudes.
– Monica L. Wofford
Confidence is belief without arrogance.
– Monica L. Wofford
It takes courage to exhibit in your beliefs and courage to exhibit confidence in who you believe in.
– Monica L. Wofford
A scientific person will never understand why he should believe opinions only because they are written in a certain book.
– Vincenzo Berghella
I have my own opinion, do not confuse it with the facts.
– George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them to do.
– George Bernard Shaw
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
– Oscar Wilde
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.
– Tom Corr
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
– Tom Corr
If you got an opinion, why be humble about it?
– Joan Baez
So-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother’s big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
– Dan Rather
But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is fate more terrible than dying.
– Joan of Arc
The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
– Joan Collins
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education. Sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
– E.B. White
Let not opinion make thy judgement err; The evening conquest crowns the conqueror.
– Lady Alimony
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
– Carl Sandburg
The world is governed by opinion.
– William Elery Channing
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
– Alfred Austin
In my own opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
– Donald Norman
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
– William James
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working.
– Joseph Demakis
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system.
– Joseph Demakis
All money is a matter of belief.
– Joseph Demakis
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.
– Rodney Dangerfield
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
– Steve Jobs
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
– Tony Robbins
Belief creates the actual fact.
– William James
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
– John Stuart Mill
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
– Henry David Thoreau
Beliefs are the intangible keys to making lasting shifts in our habits.
– James Frey
Beliefs rule our lives. One day we couldn’t do something, the next day we could.
– James Frey
One of the best ways to communicate better is to see the situation, issue or circumstances from the other person’s point of view. If you make the message about them, from their point of view. it will carry a lot more weight.
– James Frey
In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.
– Benjamin Franklin
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
– Gelett Burgess
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion?
– William Lloyd Garrison
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent it.
– Katharine Whitehorn
To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
– Daniel Webster
No use in taking a cat’s opinion of a dog.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
– James Russell Lowell
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
– Voltaire
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