Opinion Quotes

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.

~ Tanith Lee

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

~ Manfred Von Richthofen

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

~ Robert Jackson

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

~ Michael Berryman

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

~ Ulysses S. Grant

The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

~ Aaron Rodgers

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

~ Taylor Swift

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

~ Michel De Montaigne

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

~ Keyshawn Johnson

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

~ Shinzo Abe

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

~ Sherry Stringfield

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

~ John Stuart Mill

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

~ Horatio Nelson

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

~ Carl Sandburg

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

~ Albrecht Dürer

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

~ Plato

Knowledge is true opinion.

~ Plato

I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

~ Martin Seligman

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

~ Harriet Martineau

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

~ A. R. Ammons

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

~ Marco Rubio

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.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

~ Aldous Huxley

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

~ Pierre Bayle

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

~ Willy Brandt

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

~ Michael Franti

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

~ Jack Kerouac

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

~ Paul Farmer

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

~ Maurice Ashley

I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

~ Thomas Kinkade

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

~ Richard Wagner

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

~ Debbie Reynolds

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

~ Olivier Theyskens