Opinion Quotes

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George Santayana

Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.

Steve Maraboli

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Richard J. Needham

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Yitzhak Navon

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Walter Lippmann

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Walter Benjamin

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

John Jay Chapman

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Voltaire

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

Steve Maraboli

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Jane Austen

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Mark Twain

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Jean Rostand

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Henry Ward Beecher

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

Your opinion is not my reality.

Steve Maraboli

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Samuel Johnson

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Kim Basinger