Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things.

I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to think; you're encouraged to feel. This is a broad, broad statement. So I think those women who go out on a limb and publish essays are highly conscious of how they are writing their opinions.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

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.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

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.

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

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

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 obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

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

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

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

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

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

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 requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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.

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

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