Top 46 Having Opinions Quotes
#1. I've given up having opinions," Leo said. "Hardly anyone agrees with them, and if someone does, it's proof he has no judgment whatsoever.
Lisa Kleypas
#2. Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe
#3. Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe
#4. Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.
Amy Reed
#5. Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.
George F. Will
#6. I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.
Susan Sontag
#7. Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E.B. White
#8. As a woman with strong opinions talking about technology and politics is not always welcome in Germany. Nope, it's more like having a great cheerleader team behind me. People who follow my journey know I have a slightly colorful personality. The rest skipped out long ago.
Angela Merkel
#9. The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who having all the current literature and devoting his whole time to its perusal, swallows it all without digestion.
Cecil B. Hartley
#10. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
Bertrand Russell
#11. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
George Clooney
#12. Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
Asa Larsson
#13. Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
Nina Conti
#14. Once you think about it, aren't the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people's opinions having more fun than those judging them?
Taylor Swift
#15. Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Daisy Bates
#16. I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.
Mindy Kaling
#17. How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
Anne Frank
#19. I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism ... I'm not scared of people disliking me.
Ronda Rousey
#20. One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. A Mind could hold any set of facts and opinions it wanted without having to tell anybody what it knew or thought, or why.
Iain M. Banks
#22. There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.
Sarah Vowell
#23. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
Jill Lepore
#24. My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#25. When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
Jimmy Carter
#26. I am in no degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed?
Bertrand Russell
#27. The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#28. You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.
Carolyn Hax
#29. Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.
Ronda Rousey
#30. To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
C. Wright Mills
#31. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#32. Books can be dangerous. You never know when they're going to blow up, and what they'll take out when they do. Why do you think dictators are so fond of burning them? One idea can lead to another, and then before you know it, people are going crazy having thoughts and opinions and stuff.
Amanda Weaver
#33. While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
Kara Swisher
#34. The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
John Stuart Mill
#35. In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign's business. Having no standing in the other world, the sovereign has no concern with what may lie in wait for its subjects in the life to come, provided they are good citizens in this life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#36. I know we differ in our religious opinions; but don't you give me credit for having some, though not the same as yours?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#37. I'm not a follower, but I'm not brave enough to be the leader either. I don't see this as a flaw; it's a strength, really. Leaders get burned for having strong opinions. I get to have them without the pretentious bravado.
Tarryn Fisher
#38. My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
Jimmy Wales
#39. Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#41. What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing ... having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.
Russell Brand
#42. Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.
Heather Chapple
#43. No one in 'Banshee' has small opinions. They have strong beliefs, and they will defend them ferociously. Having that element in the show just adds another level. It's another avenue for story, and it enriches the world.
Antony Starr
#44. We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.
Anne Frank
#45. What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.
Brandi Chastain
#46. I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
Noorilhuda
