Opinion Quotes

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

~ Marcus Aurelius

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

~ Piers Anthony

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.

~ Frank Zappa

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

~ Cory Stallworth

I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

~ Tim Gunn

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

~ Epictetus

In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion.

~ Unknown

Each year, take a step aside, look back, and recognize how the people you have met, what you have read, and what you've heard, have changed you slightly for the better or maybe slightly worse. Similarly, you can respect that each day you learn more, you understand less, so the more you understand, the less you express a desire to learn. If this seems too deep, remember that I know nothing, and am literally a fool and still a kid, relatively.

~ Mark Sherman Smeester

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

~ Alison Weir

Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there!'Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy?

~ Kevin Focke

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

~ Susan Hill

We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.

~ John Ortberg

I would never tell you what to believe, Daniel, so please don't tell me that my opinion is wrong. We should be allowed a few basic human rights in life: the right to decide what goes into our bodies and the right to have an opinion without feeling shamed for it.

~ Jewel E. Ann

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

~ Agatha Christie

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.

~ Deyth Banger

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.

~ James C. Dobson

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

~ Max Weber

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

~ Jane Austen

A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than for a glass of beer for which he cannot pay.

~ Anonymous

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...

~ Deyth Banger

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

~ Franz Kafka

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people’s notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’s throat.

~ Boris Pasternak

Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did you consult about it?”“Nobody.

~ Ayn Rand

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little time and attention. His task would keep his mind in perpetual unrest, which would prevent him from penetrating to the depth of any truth, or of grappling his mind indissolubly to any conviction. His intellect would be at once independent and powerless. He must therefore make his choice from amongst the various objects of human belief, and he must adopt many opinions without discussion, in order to search the better into that smaller number which he sets apart for investigation. It is true that whoever receives an opinion on the word of another, does so far enslave his mind; but it is a salutary servitude which allows him to make a good use of freedom.A principle of authority must then always occur, under all circumstances, in some part or other of the moral and intellectual world. Its place is variable, but a place it necessarily has. The independence of individual minds may be greater, or it may be less: unbounded it cannot be. Thus the question is, not to know whether any intellectual authority exists in the ages of democracy, but simply where it resides and by what standard it is to be measured.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There are opinions and then there are opinions...behold the nature of mankind.

~ Will Leamon

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion.

~ Kim Yannayon

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

~ Samuel R. Delany

Ray was always of the opinion that a handful was more than enough. Anything else just tends to sag, once it’s out of a bra.

~ Jason Medina

...Opinion without a rational process.

~ Ayn Rand

Effectiveness comes when the opinion of a person comes into agreement with God’s opinion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.

~ Zafon Ruiz C.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.

~ John Stuart Mill

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

~ Seneca

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

~ Michael Harris

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

~ Justin Alcala

Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.

~ Steve Maraboli

God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

~ John Stuart Mill