Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Scott Westerfeld

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

Thomas Jefferson

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

Thomas Jefferson

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Stanley Kubrick

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Tori Amos

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

Robert Menzies

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Robert Greene

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

William Strunk, Jr.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

William Safire

Have a definite opinion.

Winston Churchill

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Wim Wenders

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

William Hazlitt

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

Samuel Richardson

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

Joseph Kosinski

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Kim Novak

I was always opinionated.

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.

Tennessee Williams

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Marcus Aurelius

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything is mere opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Thomas a Kempis

Do not interfere when your opinion is not sought.

Samuel Johnson

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Samuel Johnson

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Roy H. Williams

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we’re already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

Stanley Baldwin

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

Shirley Manson

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.