Opinion Quotes

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I'm not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

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

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

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

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.