Opinion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
-- Adam Lambert -
The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
-- Adam Levine -
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
-- Adam Levine -
We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
-- Ai Weiwei -
It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.
-- Al Franken -
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
-- Al Pacino -
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
-- Alain de Botton -
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
-- Alan Cumming -
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
-- Albert J. Nock -
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
-- Albert Meltzer -
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
-- Albert Speer -
If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
-- Aldo Leopold -
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.
-- Alex Garland -
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
-- Alexander Pope -
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
-- Alexander Pope -
I consider him [i.e Stalin] one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.
-- Alexander Zinoviev -
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
-- Alfred Lansing -
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.
-- Alfred Molina -
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
-- Amy Smart -
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
-- Anatoly Karpov -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
-- Andre Maurois -
Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
-- Andrew Sarris -
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.
-- Andy Andrews -
Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
-- Andy Rooney -
If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion
-- Angelina Jolie -
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
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.
-- Anna Freud -
Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
-- Anne Carson -
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
-- Anne Enright -
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
-- Anne Lamott -
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinionsâ€. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
-- Anthony de Mello -
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.
-- Antonin Scalia -
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
-- Anuj -
People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.
-- Arlene Francis -
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
-- Arnold Bennett -
When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
-- Arthur Helps -
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
-- Augustus William Hare -
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
-- Augustus William Hare -
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
-- Ayn Rand -
To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.
-- B. J. Palmer -
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
-- Barbara Bush -
Very few people have no opinions about cats.
-- Barbara Holland -
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
-- Barry Diller -
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
-- Barry White -
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
-- Bernard Barton -
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
-- Bernard Baruch -
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.
-- Bertrand Meyer -
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.
-- Bertrand Russell -
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
-- Betty Boothroyd -
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
-- Bill Dixon -
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
-- Billy Joel -
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for
-- Bob Goff -
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
-- Bob Goff -
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
-- Bobby Knight -
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
-- Brad Thor -
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 -
I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.
-- Brandon Jennings -
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.
-- Brendan Fraser -
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
-- Brennan Manning -
Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?
-- Brian Lamb -
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
-- Brian Sutton-Smith -
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
-- Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott -
In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
-- Bruce Lee -
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,
-- Bruce Willis -
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.
-- Burton J. Hendrick -
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
-- Byron Katie -
You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.
-- Calvin Johnson -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.
-- Carl Icahn -
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.
-- Carla Bruni
