Top 1200 Opinion Polls Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.

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.

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.

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.

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

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

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

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

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

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

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

...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

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

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

My only opinion on childbirth is not to have an opinion, and not to judge. We're all different and anything can happen when it comes to labour: you just don't know until you get there.

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

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

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!

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

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.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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.

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.

From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has only agreater tincture of choler

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

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

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

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

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

You can't depend on polls.

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

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

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

I don't look at polls.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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

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.

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.

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.