Quotes About Opinions Without Facts

#1. Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

#2. Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless ... facts and markets are far more reliable.

William O'Neil

#3. I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

R. K. Milholland

#4. The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Weber

#5. We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#6. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.

Nalin Mehta

#7. If you are not master of the facts they will beat you down with opinions. If you are not master of the void they will beat you down with facts.

Nanamoli Thera

#8. The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow

#9. 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

#10. There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

J. Boone

#11. 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

#12. These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Winston Churchill

#13. Opinions sway; facts remain unswerving.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

Travis Bradberry

#15. Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

#16. Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E.B. White

#17. The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

Jennifer Lopez

#18. 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

#19. Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Jack McDevitt

#20. We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

Mort Crim

#21. Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

Lionel Suggs

#22. Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

Bernard Baruch

#23. When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

Chester Bowles

#24. I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Richard Dawkins

#25. I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

Eric Stoltz

#26. You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Michael Bloomberg

#27. Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

Dawn Stewart Field

#28. Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

Meghan Daum

#29. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

Forrest Carr

#30. A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

Charles Kettering

#31. It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Lippmann

#32. 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

#33. True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

Walter Lippmann

#34. Contrary opinions are one thing, contrary facts are another.

Patrick Rothfuss

#35. When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

Marianne Fredriksson

#36. Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Caleb Cushing