Opinion Quotes

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense ...

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be di...

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In...

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is reall...

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but li...

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, e...

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an indiv...

...Opinion without a rational process.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and...

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...

Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, w...

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

Don’t you know that most people take most things because that’s what’s given them, and they have no ...

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out o...

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison...

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of on...

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean ...

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of ...

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right i...

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my op...

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremend...

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting...

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is ...

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise ins...

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any o...

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and worki...

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...

The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in obj...

Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

Nothing is my last word on anything.

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you t...

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance...

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...

It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among y...

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opini...

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watch...

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all th...

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from y...

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are...

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be me...

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm goin...

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...

Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an a...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the fa...

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong wit...

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...

No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment t...

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be...

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we we...

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is its...

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let...

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write...

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opini...

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees ...

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a re...