Top 100 Own Opinions Quotes
#1. The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
#2. We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.
Mort Crim
#3. 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. Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
Evan Daugherty
#6. 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
#7. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
Sheri S. Tepper
#8. You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene - except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions.
Edmond Manning
#10. The persecuting spirit has its origin ... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske
#11. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
Ira Kaplan
#12. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson I
#14. 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
#15. It's a coffee place. You can't just automatically classify anything that isn't a steak house as vegetarian.
Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert heir own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient fast as mere opinions.
Kevin Hearne
#16. A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
Kevin Focke
#17. It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
Thomas More
#18. 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
#19. Good Morning," she said.
"We all have our own opinions about that, Mrs. Rayne.
Lisa Kleypas
#20. 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
#21. Who are you going to be more impressed by, the person who has a litany of his own opinions, or the historian who can draw on the great thinkers who came before him?
Joshua Foer
#22. Thank God he wasn't the St. Louis Rams' coach. I have a lot of respect for Coach Dungy and like everyone in America, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
Michael Sam
#23. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
William Temple
#24. In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster
Claude C. Hopkins
#25. 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
#26. You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.
Stephanie Perkins
#27. Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.
Rafael Nadal
#28. People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.
Raquel Welch
#29. Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#30. When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.
Thora Birch
#31. 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
#32. I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
Sam Hunt
#33. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
Epictetus
#35. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Nalin Mehta
#36. That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.
Stephen Harper
#37. Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Paul McCartney
#38. The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
Charles Dudley Warner
#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
#42. People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
Aaron Carter
#43. Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
Jane Austen
#44. This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.
Thomas A Kempis
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2)
Jan Silvious
#49. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.
Jamie Moyer
#50. I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.
Emma Forrest
#51. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn't. It's not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can't have your own facts.
Ricky Gervais
#52. For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#53. Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
William Hazlitt
#54. 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
#55. Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
Epictetus
#56. If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.
Daymond John
#57. 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
#58. I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.
Paula Heller Garland
#59. 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
#60. When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne Bronte
#61. The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.
Roksanda Ilincic
#62. I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
Shania Twain
#64. The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
Evelyn Waugh
#65. If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell
#66. If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one
Ernst Happel
#67. All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#68. I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.
Bertrand Russell
#69. If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don't want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions.
Jeff Wheeler
#70. People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
Isaac Asimov
#71. To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#72. Let us not be false witnesses for Christ, changing the doctrine of God to suit our own opinions.
Adam Houge
#74. Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.
Kevin Hearne
#75. Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them
very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.
Emily Bronte
#79. Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.
Deepak Burfiwala
#80. Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.
Amanda Penland
#81. Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
#82. When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
Jimmy Carter
#83. Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#84. Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.
Rachel Neumeier
#85. There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.
Gregory Berns
#86. People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.
James W. Loewen
#87. People fucking love their own opinions and are all too happy to throw 'em at you, whether you ask or not. You have to be happy with yourself.
Kylie Scott
#88. 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
#89. Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
James Mackintosh
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]
Steve Jobs
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?
Nicholas Sparks
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Judd Nelson
#99. 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
#100. 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
