#Opinions

"I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things."

"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."

"How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."

"Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval."

"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole."

"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."

"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."

"The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

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

"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one."

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

"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)"

"I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life."

"Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out."

"Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions."