Quotes about Opinion

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

The call of God is the expression of God's nature, not ours. God providentially weaves the threads of His call through our lives, and only we can distinguish them. It is the threading of God's voice directly to us over a certain concern, and it is useless to seek another person's opinion of it. Our dealings over the call of God should be kept exclusively between ourselves and Him.

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.