Top 1200 Differences Of Opinion Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Shared Sino-American global security goals would not mean that one partner dictates to the other. U.S.-PRC differences will persist, and on the Asian regional level they can even be a source of mutual irritation. Nor should it mean that we ignore the basic differences between our political systems and values.

In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.

Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

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

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There are nuances of differences, but not fundamental differences. I think that President Bush was heading in this direction, and I have no doubt that he will again wind up in this position. But right now he has to be preoccupied with the atrocity committed in New York and Washington.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

I give my honest opinion, whether it's right or wrong, but it's an opinion that I'll make.

Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

Anybody can have any opinion they want to, as long as it's an informed opinion.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

They [leftists] want to eliminate the concept of winners and losers. They want to wipe out the fact that there are any differences, particularly outcome differences, from one person to another. The things that they seek are not possible. The things that they seek are rooted in self-loathing, misery, unhappiness, crankiness, whatever.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

I think that's the beauty of living in America, right? We all get our own opinion, and no one opinion is absolute.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.

…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological differences - and they're not necessary ones, given the anomalous state of bodies in the world - become the salient characteristics of sex.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.