Opinion Quotations | Page 2

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don't want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

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?

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

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.

I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

I've always been a girl with a massive opinion.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

I've learned that no matter what I do, people are going to have their opinions.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

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.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.