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Opinion Quotes


"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."


"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."


"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."


"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."


"It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope."


"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."


"I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all."


"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."


"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."


"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."


"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."


"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."


"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."


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


"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."


"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."


"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."


"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."


"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."


"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."


"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."


"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."


"To stupid or what???I really don't get it... why do you agree always!?Don't you have an opinion... so far I have onion with prefix "Op" and what somehow from nowhere a prefix and suffix I build a word called itself an a "opinion"..."


"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
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