Opinion Quotes

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

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

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.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

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.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

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.