Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

I try to keep my artistic opinions not so much "to myself" but "on myself.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

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

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

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

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for it. The way I tell my story or my opinion would be very similar in both fiction and documentary forms. But I found I could speak more effectively to convey this brutal reality through documentary than I could through fiction.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

It's not about preferring someone, it's about whose ideas are more close to you and whose ideas are more welcomed in Russian public opinion. Let's not forget about public opinion in our country. It's very influential and it's very powerful.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

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.

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.

I used to get great press. I get the worst press. I get such dishonest reporting with the media. I've never had anything like it before. It happened during the primaries, and I said, you know, when I won, I said, "Well the one thing good is now I'll get good press." And it got worse. So that was one thing that a little bit of a surprise to me. I thought the press would become better, and it actually, in my opinion, got more nasty.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?