Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Jonathan Swift

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Heather Mills

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Mahatma Gandhi

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

George Eliot

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

Nicolas Chamfort

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Jacque Fresco

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

Mike Tyson

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Matthew Weiner

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

Lauryn Hill

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

John Shelby Spong

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

John Ruskin

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Louisa May Alcott

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Jonathan Edwards

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

John Barth

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

James Taranto

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Joan Konner

The reason there are so many opinions is that no one knows the Truth.

Jimmie Johnson

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

Gautam Adani

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Karlie Kloss

You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

Harlan Ellison

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.

John Locke

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

Helen Clark

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Pete Seeger

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

Plutarch

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Phillips Brooks

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Thomas Aquinas

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Terry Pratchett

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.