Opinion Quotes

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.