Opinion Quotes

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

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

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

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