Opinion Quotes

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

Opinion is the queen of the world.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Obama has been an absolute disaster in my opinion in the US. I run a business. The healthcare costs are going through the roof for not only the businesses but the people.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.