Quotes About Opinion

I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others.

It's symmetrical, left and right, because both the Dems and the GOP, Labour and the Tories, want the government to be really, really big, without regard to free choice, and to follow majoritarian opinion really, really closely, without regard to minorities. We Modern True Liberals stand against them both, opposing the tyranny of the majority on either side of the usual spectrum. Hip, hip, hurray for Smith, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Bastiat, Mill and their descendants.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion.

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Beau was going to have a cow. But when did Beau's opinion ever keep Zac from doing what he wanted?

He's all wrong for you," Travis said. "You're the expert? Last I checked, you resigned from that position.

I don't understand why people monologue about what they don't want to eat as if it's interesting.

I don't like your tone." "I don't like your shoes.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

I am better than my reputation.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.