Top 100 Quotes About Opinions
#1. That we shouldn't base God's desire to help us on our opinions of ourselves. Otherwise we'd always be in over our heads. We need to start believing that he wants to help us. Even when we make mistakes.
Susan May Warren
#2. I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.
Ruth Reichl
#3. On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
John Stuart Mill
#4. Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.
David Hewson
#5. Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#6. 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
#7. I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.
Sarah Lacy
#8. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#9. I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.
Doug Melvin
#10. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
David Hume
#11. The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear ...
Isabel Allende
#12. Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
Bertrand Russell
#13. The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.
Sauli Niinisto
#14. My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Ruben Studdard
#15. Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.
Ravi Zacharias
#16. Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
Ai Weiwei
#17. It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
Anita Borg
#18. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. I quote the late Ed Murow ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty good reporter. But when it comes to my opinions, mine are not worth anymore than the guy at the end of the bar.' And I believe that about myself.
Dan Rather
#20. You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone's 'interesting opinions' so personally.
Raphael Zernoff
#21. Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#22. Opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.
Robin Hobb
#23. My grandmother is very liberal, but ... she still has her opinions.
Rutina Wesley
#24. The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
Sheri Fink
#25. I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
Steven Pinker
#26. We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
Luke Scott
#27. When we speak of "gods," we are really talking about "the opinions of priests." When we speak of "the government," we really mean "the violence of a tiny minority.
Stefan Molyneux
#28. 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
#29. You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
Ray Bradbury
#30. Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
Jim Slattery
#31. You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.
Garrett Hedlund
#32. In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
J. Norman Collie
#33. Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.
Margarita Engle
#34. we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else's opinions if we know who we are
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.
Manny Ramirez
#36. 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
#37. The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
Thomas Sowell
#39. I'm getting ready to change a lot of opinions about me.
Brandon Jacobs
#40. The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge
Howard Marks
#41. That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.
Zachary Quinto
#42. Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
Karl Kraus
#43. Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
#44. When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.
Kevin Eikenberry
#45. I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
Hannah Arendt
#47. The most successful men are those who never admit the validity of other people's opinions, who even deny their existence.
Aldous Huxley
#48. False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph De Maistre
#49. I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush
#51. Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.
Frederick Lenz
#52. People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
William Butler Yeats
#53. It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
Suki Waterhouse
#54. It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
Anton Corbijn
#55. He was less like a tree of knowledge and more like a bush of opinions." From the book "The Sellout
Paul Beatty
#56. 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
#57. At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.
Tyga
#58. Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.
James Madison
#59. but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?
Dave Goulson
#60. To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I'm just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.
Bill Burr
#61. He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
Alex Ferguson
#62. [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.
Epictetus
#64. Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#65. 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
#66. She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.
Stephanie Kallos
#68. 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
#69. None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
Bill James
#70. A lad who wears his every thought upon his face is asking for someone to change his opinions.
Nancy E. Turner
#71. Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#73. I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
Jimmy Carl Black
#74. Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ... and will belong to science.
Bertrand Russell
#75. This is nobody's fault, swiftly be assured; being human beings with personal opinions and brains, we are respondent to any shreds of beauty we can get; I myself am hopelessly respondent to it!
J.D. Salinger
#76. Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.
Gautama Buddha
#77. The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
David Hare
#78. My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
#79. I don't read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends' opinions, even though we all dress very differently.
Sophia Amoruso
#80. I'm not really the author, the entrepreneur, the DJ, the martial artist, the teacher, the lecturer, the music producer, or even the person you can talk to when you need. I'm the guy that does what is necessary when everyone is busy talking about it and expressing opinions.
Robin Sacredfire
#81. It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#82. There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.
Jehane Noujaim
#83. You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
Aleister Crowley
#84. For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#85. 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
#86. We need the world to hear more opinions, give glimpses into more diverse subcultures.
Felicia Day
#87. On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#88. The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.
William Safire
#90. I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie
#91. Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.
Lee Kuan Yew
#92. The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#93. Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.
Thomas Jefferson
#94. 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
#95. Men's opinions are based on the size of their bank balance. To have or not to have, as Shakespeare would say.' 'Before
Gabriel Chevallier
#96. I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom ... it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!
Jennifer E. Smith
#97. Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.
Lisa Bedrick
#98. communicating fully and openly, by not withholding or misleading. There is no doubt that our decision-making is better if we are able to draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. But as valuable as the information is
Ed Catmull
#99. If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.
Bill Moyers
#100. Many customers form their opinions about the product or about the service solely by their contacts with the people that they see - contact men, I will call them.
W. Edwards Deming
