Quotes About Opinion

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in your power. Take away then, when you choose, your opinion, and like a mariner who has rounded the headland, you will find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Roger, I don't know what your problem is. I don't know if it's a personal grudge, or ambition, or if you just need to get laid. But we have a fundamental difference of opinion on what our mission is. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go do my actual, legal job." He started away.

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

Everyone has an opinion. And yet we feel more lost and afraid than ever

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

George Elsey put it succinctly: "You can't sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn't any public opinion. The public doesn't know anything about it; they haven't heard about it. The President must decide what he is going to do and do it, and attempt to educate the public to the reasons for his action.

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think?

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.

The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

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

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.