Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

For me, it's not about the awards. I don't define success by how many awards you have or how much money you have. To me, success is if I'm happy. If you have $20 million in the bank and you're not happy, you're not successful to me - that's my opinion.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone`s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I`m not sure that`s true anymore.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Harold Koopowitz a son-of-a-gun! He's a drug peddler, in my opinion.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Have a definite opinion.

Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

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.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

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.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.