People have opinions but no knowledge.
Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.
Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
I often think about my dad. He couldn't name you half the government ministers but it doesn't mean that he hasn't got an opinion.
Public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
The opinion of the people is not to be taken from the streets.
I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.
You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.
As far as all players [being unfairly connected], people have their own opinions, and they're usually from the outside looking in. I don't listen to someone who is on the outside of what we're dealing with every day on the inside.
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.
