Quotes about Opinions

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

Remember that it is we who torment, we who make difficulties for ourselves — that is, our opinions do. What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

It isn't important to me how people respond to my work.

People of Pakistan don't want a ban on Indian content in their country, but it is their politicians who want it. In our country too, politicians want to ban their art and artists.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.