Opinions And Beliefs Quotes:

Always have your own opinion and belief.

- Kim Jong-hyun

topic: Belief, Opinion, Opinions And Beliefs

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Existence, Boldness, Evidence Of God, Theism, World Religions

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

topic: Decision, Heaven, Mind, Questioning Beliefs, Weak Minds

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Art, Thinking, People, Opinions And Beliefs

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

- John Lancaster Spalding

source: "Aphorisms and Reflections". Book by John Lancaster Spalding, p. 180, 1901.

topic: Mind, Belief, Opinion, Opinions And Beliefs

It is safe to look within. As I move through the layers of other people's opinions and beliefs, I see within myself a magnificent being, wise and beautiful. I love what I see in me.

- Louise Hay

topic: Beautiful, Wise, Moving, Opinions And Beliefs

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.

- Stephen A. Smith

source: Source: www.theroot.com

topic: People, Soul, Black, Opinions And Beliefs

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Religious, Men, Hypocrisy, Mind Free, Religious History

Human beings are worthy of the highest respect but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must those beliefs be respected? There is a big difference between the two.

- Maryam Namazie

source: "One woman's war" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

topic: Believe, Two, White, White Supremacy, Opinions And Beliefs

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

- William O. Douglas

source: "Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

topic: People, Freedom Of Speech, Principles, Opinions And Beliefs

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'

- Charles Evans Hughes

source: Speech to the American Bar Association, September 02, 1925.

topic: Character, Liberty, Important, Opinions And Beliefs

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

topic: Freedom, Men, Mind, Opinions And Beliefs

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

- Larry Niven

topic: Mistake, Character, Belief, Literary Terms, Opinions And Beliefs

RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

- Marcus Garvey

source: Marcus Garvey (1923). “Philosophy and opinions: Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey”

topic: Christian, Godly, Men, Opinions And Beliefs