Quotes about Opinions

When people ask me that absurd question Do you like children? I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.

All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.

I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

It is important to approach the Word with humility. There is danger when we go to the Word to gather information to establish our opinions or beliefs. We then read what we believe, instead of believe what we read.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

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)

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.