Top 100 Own Opinions Quotes
#1. We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.
Mort Crim
#2. There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
L.M. Montgomery
#3. Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
James Mackintosh
#4. Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Abraham Maslow
#5. It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.
Richard Greenberg
#7. I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
George Carlin
#8. I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
George Washington
#9. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
Steve Jobs
#10. For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
Luke Evans
#11. The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Samuel Butler
#12. The persecuting spirit has its origin ... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske
#13. Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?
Nicholas Sparks
#14. To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian
#15. While analyzing some already-existing opinions on the subject, he also expressed his own view. The main thing was the tone of the article and its remarkably unexpected conclusion.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#16. I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest ... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman
#17. I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Judd Nelson
#18. A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
Kevin Focke
#19. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
Dilma Rousseff
#20. Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.
Baruch Spinoza
#21. Good Morning," she said.
"We all have our own opinions about that, Mrs. Rayne.
Lisa Kleypas
#22. Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.
Galileo Galilei
#23. How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.
Shirley Manson
#24. If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. The greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#26. That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book
Sheri Fink
#27. So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
Stephen L. Carter
#28. It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their own forging, viz.
Jakob Bohme
#29. I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson
#30. Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.
William Zinsser
#31. I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
Sam Hunt
#32. Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
B.W. Powe
#33. It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of others.
Haruki Murakami
#35. To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Milton Sapirstein
#36. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Nalin Mehta
#37. You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
Beverly Engel
#38. 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
#39. Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
Nyogen Senzaki
#40. You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.
Jodi Picoult
#41. 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
#42. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
Brigham Young
#43. What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#44. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#45. In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.
Joost Meerloo
#46. What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
Eddie Redmayne
#47. I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.
Willa Ford
#48. Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow
and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own,
learning that I don't have the answers to everything. And the moment a child
begins to understand that, you know you're in trouble.
Cecelia Ahern
#49. The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.
Chris Evans
#50. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
Felicia Johnson
#51. For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. The party chiefs live in an atmosphere in which a sense of their own importance and the importance of their class interests and privileges is exaggerated, and which the opinions of the common people can scarcely penetrate...' Later,
Anita Leslie
#53. Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
Thomas Sowell
#54. The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
#55. It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
#56. She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
Jane Austen
#57. My life is my own, and the opinions of others don't interest me...
Carroll John Daly
#58. You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.
Terrence J
#59. I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Suzanne Vega
#60. The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well.
Paul Smith
#61. I don't believe we need to sympathize with opposing views; I do believe we need to develop the capacity to acknowledge and empathize with conflicting opinions that are as passionately defended as our own.
Chris Rhyss Edwards
#62. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#63. I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.
Todd Solondz
#64. Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries
Louise Mushikiwabo
#65. The only advice I can give you ... is to examine who you are ... Figure out what's important to you. Know yourselves. Know what's in your heart. Don't be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.
J-Ax
#66. 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
#67. Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
Criss Jami
#68. I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one thing that separates them from the rest of us is their fearless ability to walk their own path regardless of the opinions of others.
Gary Hopkins
#69. I don't know the world, nor yet the people in it; I have been too solitary - I am too young to trust my own opinions.
Joseph Conrad
#70. In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team ... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.
Paul Weller
#71. Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.
Arlene Dahl
#73. I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
Shania Twain
#74. The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Evelyn Waugh
#75. I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion ... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
William Cobbett
#76. Love: The heart wants what it wants. It doesn't seek other people's opinions; sometimes not even your own.
Steve Maraboli
#77. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
Henrik Ibsen
#78. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds.
Miguel Ruiz
#79. He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#80. 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
#81. Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
John Stuart Mill
#82. I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
Melissa Etheridge
#83. A great leader listens to other people's suggestions and opinions but a dogmatic leader dismisses them and sticks to his/her own decision.
Euginia Herlihy
#84. And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
Persius
#85. Let us not be false witnesses for Christ, changing the doctrine of God to suit our own opinions.
Adam Houge
#86. I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.
Ellen DeGeneres
#87. I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people's opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.
Carl Henegan
#88. I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
#89. The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow
#90. My opinions," I say to him, quietly this time, "should not so easily break your own. Stand by your convictions. Form clear and logical arguments. Even if I disagree.
Tahereh Mafi
#91. Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.
P. M. Forni
#92. Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller
#93. Nd love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way
Paulo Coelho
#94. Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish
#95. Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
Anne Frank
#96. Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.
Rachel Neumeier
#97. All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.
Joseph Murphy
#98. I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.
George Clooney
#99. It is a natural process to become your own person, to find your voice, convictions, and opinions, and to challenge and shed the Shoulds that no longer serve your evolving beliefs.
Elle Luna
#100. Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.
Joseph Addison
