Top 101 Opinion Quotes For When You Disagree

Moumita Dutta
Dec 12, 2023 By Moumita Dutta
Originally Published on Mar 25, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
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It is said that judgment, belief, or an indefinite statement, which is opposed to true statements, is known as an opinion.

Opinions deal with subjective matters to individuals. And they may deal with facts that are disputed by logical fallacy.

Rarely are opinions changed without having new arguments and perspectives presented. Different people may have contrasting opinions even if they agree on the same sets of facts. One’s perspective, understanding, beliefs, world-view, and desires can shape their opinion.

Opinions can be divided into public opinion, group opinion, scientific opinion, legal opinion, judicial opinion, and editorial opinion.

Find the best second opinion quotes, 'your opinion doesn't matter' quotes, and great 'your opinion of me' quotes right here. And for more related content take a look at perspective quotes and perception quotes.
 

Best Quotes About Opinion

Everyone has opinions of their own and these opinions have given birth to some of the best things in society. Here are some of the best people's opinion quotes that helped frame the world.

1. “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato.

2. “The science of cosmology is closest to the soul because it has to do with origins, and that somehow generates strong opinions.”

— Allan Rex Sandage.

3. “Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you.”

Steve Maraboli.

4. “To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.”

— Denise Mina.

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

—Steve Jobs.

6. “Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”

— Daniel Handler.

7. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

— Carl Sandburg.

8. “We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

— Kurt Cobain.

9. “The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.”

— James Russell Lowell.

10. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations’.

11. “If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”

— Steve Maraboli.

12. “To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, ‘The Maxims And Reflections Of Goethe’.

13. “For most men (till by losing rendered sager)

Will back their own opinions by a wager.”

— Lord Byron, ‘Beppo’.

14. “Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.”

— Amy Reed, ‘Crazy’.

15. “The only opinion about your dream that counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours.”

— Cynthia Kersey.

16. “Never let someone's opinion of you stop you from achieving greatness.”

— Asad Meah.

17. “Your opinion is not my reality.”

— Steve Maraboli.

18. “If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”

— Nick Vujicic.

Difference Of Opinion Quotes

Opinions differ from person to person and just because they are different doesn't mean they're wrong. These great 'everyone has their own opinion' quotes will inspire you.

19. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

20. “Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

21. “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

— William Inge.

22. “People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.”

— Miyavi.

23. “Difference of opinion leads to inquiry and inquiry to the truth.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

24. “Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

— Scott Adams.

25. “Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.”

— Terry Tempest Williams.

26. “Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”

— Chaim Potok.

27. “I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.”

— Naomi Wolf.

28. “Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.”

— Robert Genn.

29. “If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”

— Muhammad Taqi Usmani.

30. “We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”

— Brooks Atkinson.

Quotes On Voicing Your Opinion

Never change your opinion on what you believe in with facts. Here are some of the best quotes about voicing your opinions.

31. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.”

— Les Brown.

32. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain.

33. “My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant.

34. “It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.”

— Donatella Versace.

35. “Instead of forming an opinion about yourself based on others views, emphasize your strengths and Give yourself credit for everything you try.”

— Senora Roy.

36. “I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.”

— James Salter.

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

— Carolyn Hax.

38. “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

39. “You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.”

— Hina Khan.

40. “Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

— Bernard Baruch.

41. “If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.”

— Jazz Jennings.

42. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

— Jack Kerouac.

Freedom Of Opinion Quotes

We are free to believe in and express our opinion as we see fit. These great quotes about freedom of opinion will amaze you.

43. “Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

— Thomas Carlyle.

44. “I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.”

— Jimmie Johnson.

45. “Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

— William Hazlitt.

46. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

— James Madison.

47. “Don’t let your opinion sway your judgment.”

— Samuel Goldwyn.

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

— Bertrand Russell.

49. “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

— Jane Austen, ‘Pride And Prejudice’.

50. “Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.”

— Edward Counsel.

51. “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”

— Thomas Mann.

52. “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

John Locke, ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’.

Public Opinion Quotes

Here are some great opinion quotes about the opinion of the public on things that play a huge impact on society and how it is framed.

53. “What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli.

54. “Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

— John Stuart Mill.

55. “Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself .”

— James Madison.

56. “Public opinion is stronger than the legislature and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.”

— Charles Dudley Warner.

57. “Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”

— Alfred Austin.

58. “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”

— Grantland Rice.

59. “Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte.

60. “Public opinion is the God of democracy and the journalist is his prophet.”

— Evan Esar.

61. “Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.”

— George F. Kennan.

62. “Public opinion is a capricious sea; whoever attempts to navigate it is liable to be tossed about by storms.”

— William Henry Seward.

63. “Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.”

— Walter Bagehot.

64. “Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”

— Oscar Wilde.

Political Opinion Quotes

With the freedom of speech and opinion comes the freedom of opinion of politics. These great quotes and sayings will teach you to respect other's political opinions.

65. “In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

66. “No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”

— Cicero.

67. “A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”

— Marcel Proust.

68. “This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.”

— Shannen Doherty.

69. “Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”

— Walter Lippmann.

70. “Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That's what makes us American.”

— J. D. Martinez.

Honest Opinion Quotes

Everyone wants an honest opinion from their peers or to give themselves. These sayings and quotes about honest opinions will help you be more honest.

71. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

— Harlan Ellison.

72. “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

— Joseph Joubert.

73. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde, ‘De Profundis’.

74. “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”

— Oscar Wilde.

75. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo.

76. “In my opinion, everything happens in nature in a mathematical way.”

— René Descartes.

Quotes About Respecting Other's Opinion

Opinions can be wrong but that doesn't mean we disrespect the person who has one. Here are some of the best quotes and sayings about respecting people's opinions.

77. “I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.”

— George Bush.

78. “I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”

— Herbert Henry Lehman.

79. “Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.”

— John Wooden.

80. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

— John Milton, ‘Areopagitica’.

81. “It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make.”

― Ashly Lorenzana.

82. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both, have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

— Thomas Aquinas.

Funny Opinion Quotes

Best Quotes About Opinion

Everyone has opinions of their own and these opinions have given birth to some of the best things in society. Here are some of the best people's opinion quotes that helped frame the world.

1. “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato.

2. “The science of cosmology is closest to the soul because it has to do with origins, and that somehow generates strong opinions.”

— Allan Rex Sandage.

3. “Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you.”

Steve Maraboli.

4. “To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.”

— Denise Mina.

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

—Steve Jobs.

6. “Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”

— Daniel Handler.

7. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

— Carl Sandburg.

8. “We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

— Kurt Cobain.

9. “The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.”

— James Russell Lowell.

10. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations’.

11. “If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”

— Steve Maraboli.

12. “To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, ‘The Maxims And Reflections Of Goethe’.

13. “For most men (till by losing rendered sager)

Will back their own opinions by a wager.”

— Lord Byron, ‘Beppo’.

14. “Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.”

— Amy Reed, ‘Crazy’.

15. “The only opinion about your dream that counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours.”

— Cynthia Kersey.

16. “Never let someone's opinion of you stop you from achieving greatness.”

— Asad Meah.

17. “Your opinion is not my reality.”

— Steve Maraboli.

18. “If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”

— Nick Vujicic.

Difference Of Opinion Quotes

Opinions differ from person to person and just because they are different doesn't mean they're wrong. These great 'everyone has their own opinion' quotes will inspire you.

19. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

20. “Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

21. “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

— William Inge.

22. “People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.”

— Miyavi.

23. “Difference of opinion leads to inquiry and inquiry to the truth.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

24. “Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

— Scott Adams.

25. “Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.”

— Terry Tempest Williams.

26. “Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”

— Chaim Potok.

27. “I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.”

— Naomi Wolf.

28. “Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.”

— Robert Genn.

29. “If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”

— Muhammad Taqi Usmani.

30. “We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”

— Brooks Atkinson.

Quotes On Voicing Your Opinion

Never change your opinion on what you believe in with facts. Here are some of the best quotes about voicing your opinions.

31. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.”

— Les Brown.

32. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain.

33. “My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant.

34. “It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.”

— Donatella Versace.

35. “Instead of forming an opinion about yourself based on others views, emphasize your strengths and Give yourself credit for everything you try.”

— Senora Roy.

36. “I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.”

— James Salter.

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

— Carolyn Hax.

38. “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

39. “You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.”

— Hina Khan.

40. “Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

— Bernard Baruch.

41. “If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.”

— Jazz Jennings.

42. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

— Jack Kerouac.

Freedom Of Opinion Quotes

We are free to believe in and express our opinion as we see fit. These great quotes about freedom of opinion will amaze you.

43. “Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

— Thomas Carlyle.

44. “I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.”

— Jimmie Johnson.

45. “Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

— William Hazlitt.

46. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

— James Madison.

47. “Don’t let your opinion sway your judgment.”

— Samuel Goldwyn.

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

— Bertrand Russell.

49. “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

— Jane Austen, ‘Pride And Prejudice’.

50. “Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.”

— Edward Counsel.

51. “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”

— Thomas Mann.

52. “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

John Locke, ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’.

Public Opinion Quotes

Here are some great opinion quotes about the opinion of the public on things that play a huge impact on society and how it is framed.

53. “What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli.

54. “Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

— John Stuart Mill.

55. “Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself .”

— James Madison.

56. “Public opinion is stronger than the legislature and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.”

— Charles Dudley Warner.

57. “Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”

— Alfred Austin.

58. “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”

— Grantland Rice.

59. “Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte.

60. “Public opinion is the God of democracy and the journalist is his prophet.”

— Evan Esar.

61. “Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.”

— George F. Kennan.

62. “Public opinion is a capricious sea; whoever attempts to navigate it is liable to be tossed about by storms.”

— William Henry Seward.

63. “Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.”

— Walter Bagehot.

64. “Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”

— Oscar Wilde.

Political Opinion Quotes

With the freedom of speech and opinion comes the freedom of opinion of politics. These great quotes and sayings will teach you to respect other's political opinions.

65. “In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

66. “No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”

— Cicero.

67. “A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”

— Marcel Proust.

68. “This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.”

— Shannen Doherty.

69. “Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”

— Walter Lippmann.

70. “Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That's what makes us American.”

— J. D. Martinez.

Honest Opinion Quotes

Everyone wants an honest opinion from their peers or to give themselves. These sayings and quotes about honest opinions will help you be more honest.

71. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

— Harlan Ellison.

72. “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

— Joseph Joubert.

73. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde, ‘De Profundis’.

74. “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”

— Oscar Wilde.

75. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo.

76. “In my opinion, everything happens in nature in a mathematical way.”

— René Descartes.

Quotes About Respecting Other's Opinion

Opinions can be wrong but that doesn't mean we disrespect the person who has one. Here are some of the best quotes and sayings about respecting people's opinions.

77. “I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.”

— George Bush.

78. “I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”

— Herbert Henry Lehman.

79. “Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.”

— John Wooden.

80. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

— John Milton, ‘Areopagitica’.

81. “It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make.”

― Ashly Lorenzana.

82. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both, have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

— Thomas Aquinas.

Funny Opinion Quotes

Coworkers sharing opinions during brainstorming session in good mood

These funny quotes and sayings about opinions will make you laugh!

83. “The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”

— Arnold H. Glasow.

84. “If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”

— John Scalzi.

85. “Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.”

— Abraham Miller, ‘Unmoral Maxims’.

86. “I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently, I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

— George Carlin.

87. “Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.”

— Franklyn Ajaye.

88. “Few men think, yet all have opinions.”

— George Berkeley.

89. “It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”

— Walter Raleigh.

90. “The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

— Mark Twain.

91. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— William Blake.

92. “The ultimate high: A man’s abilities equaling his opinion of’em.”

— Malcolm Forbes.

93. “There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt.

94. “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche.

95. “Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”

— Joseph Joubert.

96. “Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

97. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”

— Voltaire.

98. “A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.”

— Martin H. Fischer.

99. “Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.”

— Charles McCabe.

100. “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.”

— Rodney Dangerfield.

101. “Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment it's a second opinion.”

— Fran Lebowitz.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for opinion quotes then why not take a look at [open-minded quotes], or tolerance quotes.

Best Quotes About Opinion

Everyone has opinions of their own and these opinions have given birth to some of the best things in society. Here are some of the best people's opinion quotes that helped frame the world.

1. “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato.

2. “The science of cosmology is closest to the soul because it has to do with origins, and that somehow generates strong opinions.”

— Allan Rex Sandage.

3. “Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you.”

— Steve Maraboli.

4. “To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.”

— Denise Mina.

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

—Steve Jobs.

6. “Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”

— Daniel Handler.

7. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

— Carl Sandburg.

8. “We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

— Kurt Cobain.

9. “The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.”

— James Russell Lowell.

10. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations’.

11. “If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”

— Steve Maraboli.

12. “To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, ‘The Maxims And Reflections Of Goethe’.

13. “For most men (till by losing rendered sager)

Will back their own opinions by a wager.”

— Lord Byron, ‘Beppo’.

14. “Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.”

— Amy Reed, ‘Crazy’.

15. “The only opinion about your dream that counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations – not yours.”

— Cynthia Kersey.

16. “Never let someone's opinion of you stop you from achieving greatness.”

— Asad Meah.

17. “Your opinion is not my reality.”

— Steve Maraboli.

18. “If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.”

— Nick Vujicic.

Difference Of Opinion Quotes

Opinions differ from person to person and just because they are different doesn't mean they're wrong. These great 'everyone has their own opinion' quotes will inspire you.

19. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

20. “Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

21. “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

— William Inge.

22. “People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.”

— Miyavi.

23. “Difference of opinion leads to inquiry and inquiry to the truth.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

24. “Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

— Scott Adams.

25. “Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.”

— Terry Tempest Williams.

26. “Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”

— Chaim Potok.

27. “I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.”

— Naomi Wolf.

28. “Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.”

— Robert Genn.

29. “If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”

— Muhammad Taqi Usmani.

30. “We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”

— Brooks Atkinson.

Quotes On Voicing Your Opinion

Never change your opinion on what you believe in with facts. Here are some of the best quotes about voicing your opinions.

31. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.”

— Les Brown.

32. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain.

33. “My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant.

34. “It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.”

— Donatella Versace.

35. “Instead of forming an opinion about yourself based on others views, emphasize your strengths and Give yourself credit for everything you try.”

— Senora Roy.

36. “I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.”

— James Salter.

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

— Carolyn Hax.

38. “People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

39. “You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.”

— Hina Khan.

40. “Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

— Bernard Baruch.

41. “If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.”

— Jazz Jennings.

42. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

— Jack Kerouac.

Freedom Of Opinion Quotes

We are free to believe in and express our opinion as we see fit. These great quotes about freedom of opinion will amaze you.

43. “Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

— Thomas Carlyle.

44. “I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.”

— Jimmie Johnson.

45. “Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”

— William Hazlitt.

46. “As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”

— James Madison.

47. “Don’t let your opinion sway your judgment.”

— Samuel Goldwyn.

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

— Bertrand Russell.

49. “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

— Jane Austen, ‘Pride And Prejudice’.

50. “Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.”

— Edward Counsel.

51. “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”

— Thomas Mann.

52. “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

— John Locke, ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’.

Public Opinion Quotes

Here are some great opinion quotes about the opinion of the public on things that play a huge impact on society and how it is framed.

53. “What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli.

54. “Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

— John Stuart Mill.

55. “Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself .”

— James Madison.

56. “Public opinion is stronger than the legislature and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.”

— Charles Dudley Warner.

57. “Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”

— Alfred Austin.

58. “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”

— Grantland Rice.

59. “Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte.

60. “Public opinion is the God of democracy and the journalist is his prophet.”

— Evan Esar.

61. “Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.”

— George F. Kennan.

62. “Public opinion is a capricious sea; whoever attempts to navigate it is liable to be tossed about by storms.”

— William Henry Seward.

63. “Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.”

— Walter Bagehot.

64. “Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”

— Oscar Wilde.

Political Opinion Quotes

With the freedom of speech and opinion comes the freedom of opinion of politics. These great quotes and sayings will teach you to respect other's political opinions.

65. “In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason.”

— Thomas Jefferson.

66. “No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”

— Cicero.

67. “A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”

— Marcel Proust.

68. “This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.”

— Shannen Doherty.

69. “Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”

— Walter Lippmann.

70. “Everyone here has a right to their own political beliefs and everybody has the right to stand by what they believe in. That's what makes us American.”

— J. D. Martinez.

Honest Opinion Quotes

Everyone wants an honest opinion from their peers or to give themselves. These sayings and quotes about honest opinions will help you be more honest.

71. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

— Harlan Ellison.

72. “Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

— Joseph Joubert.

73. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde, ‘De Profundis’.

74. “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”

— Oscar Wilde.

75. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo.

76. “In my opinion, everything happens in nature in a mathematical way.”

— René Descartes.

Quotes About Respecting Other's Opinion

Opinions can be wrong but that doesn't mean we disrespect the person who has one. Here are some of the best quotes and sayings about respecting people's opinions.

77. “I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.”

— George Bush.

78. “I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”

— Herbert Henry Lehman.

79. “Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.”

— John Wooden.

80. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

— John Milton, ‘Areopagitica’.

81. “It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make.”

― Ashly Lorenzana.

82. “We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both, have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

— Thomas Aquinas.

Funny Opinion Quotes

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These funny quotes and sayings about opinions will make you laugh!

83. “The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”

— Arnold H. Glasow.

84. “If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”

— John Scalzi.

85. “Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.”

— Abraham Miller, ‘Unmoral Maxims’.

86. “I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently, I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

— George Carlin.

87. “Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.”

— Franklyn Ajaye.

88. “Few men think, yet all have opinions.”

— George Berkeley.

89. “It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”

— Walter Raleigh.

90. “The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

— Mark Twain.

91. “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— William Blake.

92. “The ultimate high: A man’s abilities equaling his opinion of’em.”

— Malcolm Forbes.

93. “There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt.

94. “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche.

95. “Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”

— Joseph Joubert.

96. “Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

97. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”

— Voltaire.

98. “A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.”

— Martin H. Fischer.

99. “Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.”

— Charles McCabe.

100. “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.”

— Rodney Dangerfield.

101. “Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment it's a second opinion.”

— Fran Lebowitz.

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Written by Moumita Dutta

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

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Moumita DuttaBachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

A content writer and editor with a passion for sports, Moumita has honed her skills in producing compelling match reports and stories about sporting heroes. She holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta University, alongside a postgraduate diploma in Sports Management.

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