Opinions Quotes

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) ass

~ John Scalzi

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes out anybody who doesn't conform to its own standards....The ax falls, ecumenically, on the head of anybody...who doesn't share this group's parochial preoccupations.

~ Truman Capote

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.

~ Yahtzee Croshaw

There can be so many suggestions and opinions too, What matters is that you acknowledge at your depths and stand by it like a Rock...

~ Dinesh Kumar

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

~ Roberto Bolaño

Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate.

~ Lionel Suggs

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

~ Danielle Steel

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

~ Criss Jami

In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.

~ Haruki Murakami

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

~ Neil Postman

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

~ Joseph Joubert

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

~ Abigail Biddinger

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all parts of this World in these parts and in our deare native Countrey and mournfull state of England.That either part or partie is most right in his owne eye his Cause Right his Cariage Right, his Argumts Right his Answeres Right is as wofully and constantly true as the former. And experience tells us that when the God of peace hath taken peace from the Earth one sparke of Action word or Cariage is too too powrefull to kindle such a fire as burns up Families Townes Cities Armies, Navies Nations and Kingdomes.[Letter of Roger Williams to Town of Providence, August 31, 1648]

~ Roger Williams

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

~ Steve Goodier

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans

~ Leo Tolstoy

There was a time when we used to have opinions, just humble opinions. Now everything seems to be a question of life and death. We defend, we abuse, we call names, we shout....is it because every idiot in town suddenly found a voice through social media or are intelligent people getting dumber trying to defend arguments which an idiot won't understand. I don't belong to either so I just wonder...

~ Everskeptic

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.

~ Marcel Proust

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety.

~ Erika Robuck

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

~ Dan Pearce

Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren’t your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don’t you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do.

~ Scott Stabile

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

~ Mark Twain

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

~ Lionel Suggs

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all

~ Mohsin Hamid

The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Piers Anthony

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

~ Cory Stallworth

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

~ Will Leamon

The trouble is that many people regard disagreement as unrelated to either teaching or being taught. They think that everything is just a matter of opinion. I have mine, and you have yours; and our right to our opinions is as inviolable as our right to private property. On such a view, communication cannot be profitable if the profit to be gained is an increase in knowledge. Conversation is hardly better than a ping-pong game of opposed opinions, a game in which no one keeps score, no one wins, and everyone is satisfied because he does not lose - that is, he ends up holding the same opinions he started with.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.

~ Victoria Osteen

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

~ Taylor Swift