Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.

Other people's opinions do not determine your potential.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for

Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

Party is organized opinion.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

People have no idea what it's like to be that person in the arena. I know, no offense, but a lot of people on television, talking heads and analysts and consultants and strategists and they all have their opinions and they tell what a candidate ought to do, what he should have done, what he could have done. But they've never been in at arena.

People have to form their own opinion. I've said everything I can say about it. I was viciously attacked from the stage, and I have a right to answer back. I've said everything I could say. I was viciously attacked on the stage, and I have a right to answer back.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

People who work for me know that they have a lot of autonomy. I like to know what's going on, and I'll offer my opinion, but I want people to feel that they can say to me, "That's great that you have that opinion, but, no, we're not going to do that.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

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

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.