Top 100 Opinion Is Quotes
#1. I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
Charles Dickens
#2. I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
A.R. Rahman
#3. Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.
Richard Brookhiser
#4. The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo Burnett
#5. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
#6. It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#8. Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.
E. O. Wilson
#11. My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.
Tyson Fury
#12. Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
#13. This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#14. One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.
Jessica Jackley
#15. My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.
Shaquille O'Neal
#16. I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so ... subjective!
Neil Patrick Harris
#18. Religion has to be protected; difference of opinion is not to be protected.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
Humphry Davy
#20. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Voltaire
#21. There are so many ways of walking about and the best, in my opinion, is the Greek way, because it is aimless, anarchic, thoroughly and discordantly human.
Henry Miller
#22. The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#23. Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.
Dada Bhagwan
#24. Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Gustave Flaubert
#25. Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
Frances Wright
#26. If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
John Stuart Mill
#27. Well, then, for what my opinion is worth, I'm sure you'll be an excellent father and husband. And since you don't believe in those things, you'll never take them for granted.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
Jodi Picoult
#29. Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Austin O'Malley
#30. Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman
#31. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Baruch Spinoza
#32. We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
Epictetus
#33. Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis
#34. My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
#36. My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
Chris Bohjalian
#37. Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
Ian Hacking
#38. With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
Don Cooper
#40. The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.
Lionel Suggs
#41. If your opinion is negative, the world is better off not knowing it.
K.L. Adams
#42. When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
David Hume
#43. And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#44. But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning.
Jane Austen
#45. The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.
Tony McCoy
#46. What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.
Michael Caine
#47. Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Sargent Shriver
#48. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!
Wendy Williams
#49. Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Rumi
#50. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action.
Graham Greene
#51. In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
Charles William Eliot
#52. I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Christopher Lee
#53. Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#54. In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
Garth Brooks
#55. Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.
Emily Dickinson
#56. The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.
Mike Tyson
#57. I've never known my mother to be wrong. About anything. So at this moment, her opinion is my most valuable resource.
Emma Chase
#58. The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Walter Bagehot
#59. Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
Marcus Aurelius
#60. In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.
Jons Jacob Berzelius
#61. Opinion is a flitting thing
But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily Dickinson
#62. Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
Woodrow Wilson
#63. People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society.
Pope Francis
#64. It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
Bob Graham
#65. Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#66. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
#67. I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
Keira Knightley
#68. To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!
Dada Bhagwan
#69. Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
#70. The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.
Pascal Bruckner
#71. For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.
Jodi Picoult
#72. I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
Bertrand Russell
#75. But I will only be able to claim it if I am offered it. Tell me, Dr. Blevens, in your opinion, is there a limit to how much knowledge one person is allowed to accumulate? Have I reached my quota?
Robin Oliveira
#76. My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum - what I called emotional sea level - is not
happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
Andrew Weil
#77. What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things like the opinion is now convincing, now can we make it more instructive, after he'd gone through ten drafts.
Jeffrey Rosen
#78. My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#79. My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.
Michael Wilbon
#80. I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen, and if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.
Colin Powell
#81. Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
William Rounseville Alger
#82. My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.
Deborah Cox
#83. Prayer, in my opinion, is an act of doubt, not an act of faith, for if you truly trusted your god's plan, you wouldn't pray for anything.
Michael Sherlock
#84. American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#85. There is no one else we can run to whose opinion is higher - or holier - than the Lord's. He, alone, has the answers to what we face, and His sovereignty assures us that we can trust Him, even when everything around us is whirling out of control.
Various
#86. The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.
Jan Timman
#87. Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Ellen Goodman
#88. I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.
Trevor Noah
#89. Is to the original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? Most undoubtedly.
Plato
#91. My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment ... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
Max Frisch
#93. Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin
#94. The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage
Paul V. Walters
#95. It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.
Freddy Adu
#96. Trey cocked one brow at her. "Do I not get a say in this?"
"She patted his arm. "Of course you do. Just note that if your opinion is different from mine, it will be disregarded.
Suzanne Wright
#98. Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George Eliot
#99. The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.
Steven Shainberg
#100. Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.
Drew Pinsky
