Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Marilyn vos Savant

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opinion
  • Public Opinion

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
  • Functional

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinion

• I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Important
  • Alone

• I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Outside

• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • World
  • Team
  • Respect

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Opinion
  • Word
  • Through

• In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Opinion
  • Body
  • Gay

• I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Respect

• All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Opinion
  • Flying
  • Laugh

• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • Opinion
  • Race

• We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Opinion

• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Person

• I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

  

  Danielle Dax
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Lazy
  • Concentrate

• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,If ever deed of honour did thee please,Guard them, and him within protect from harms.

  

  John Milton
  • May

• I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Inspired
  • Musical

• Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Opinion