Top 1200 Opinion Polls Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

I knew I looked kind of ridiculous, in my personal opinion - Tamlyn Tomita's opinion - a Vulcan in sunglasses and ears is a little too much, but I knew I just had to play it seriously.

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so.

The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I just want to take you down the 50-yard line and let you form your own opinion of what this controversy is about.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.

Someone else's opinion of me- does not change my opinion of me.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.

There are objective people, there are opinion people, and in my opinion that makes for a better America.

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

If you're going to have a difference of opinion, I think the difference of opinion should be on a matter of substance.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.

Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!

I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does.

I know there's always going to be feedback no matter what the subject. I am shocked by somebody commenting on my shoes or my clothes. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is logging about everything and has an opinion. So I can't possibly pay attention to that.

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.