Opinion Quotes
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.
The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.
Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.
I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.
When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.
People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
