Opinion Quotes

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

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

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

How success changes the opinion of men!

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.