What's Your Opinion?

Someone once asked me, "May I get your opinion on something?"

I replied, "Of course! I have one on just about everything."

There are few things on which I have no opinion. That is probably true about most people.

What are your opinions like? How many opinions do you hold that you think are wrong, but you hold them anyway? If you think they are wrong, why do you hold them?

As a matter of fact, if you hold an opinion that you think is wrong, it is not your opinion.

If you say, "I may be wrong, but that's my opinion," you are being dishonest. You don't believe you may be wrong. If you did, you would hold a different opinion or you would not think you could be wrong.

In other words: It is wrong to say you may be wrong when, in fact, you don't think you could be wrong.

Have you ever accused another of being "opinionated?" What did you mean by that?

Did you mean that he or she held opinions? Perhaps you meant that he or she expressed an opinion. Maybe it was just the way the opinion was expressed. Could it be that the opinion contradicted yours, therefore you did not like it?

Some people pretend that they hold "loose" opinions in the interest of being "open minded."

An open mind lets truth out as easily as it lets it in.

For instance, I am very closed minded and opinionated about lightning. It is my opinion that I do not want to be struck by it. I express this opinion about lightning having never experienced being struck by it. I am very narrow minded about that.

My opinions are all humble. Humble but correct.

It is a fact that we are all opinionated.

That's my opinion.