Opinion Quotes
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to majority opinion. (Quote by - Hugh Scanlon)
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]. (Quote by - Stephanie McMahon)
The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea. (Quote by - Lenny Kravitz)
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. (Quote by - Jim Henson)
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. (Quote by - Robert G Allen)
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. (Quote by - Douglas Macarthur)
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November. (Quote by - Norman Tebbit)
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. (Quote by - Pierre Bayle)
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. (Quote by - Georges Duhamel)
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble. (Quote by - Mavis Gallant)
Men are only as loyal as their options. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
I believe that artists should never relinquish all production control, which, in my opinion, is entering dangerous territory. (Quote by - Veruca Salt)
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. (Quote by - Dan Rather)
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. (Quote by - W H Auden)
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. (Quote by - Robert Peel)
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. (Quote by - Mary Astell)
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Everyone is entitled to our opinion. (Quote by - Tre Cool)
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. (Quote by - William Gilmore Simms)
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. (Quote by - H. P. Lovecraft)
I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified. (Quote by - Rosie O'Donnell)
It does not matter if you think I'm clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid. (Quote by - Thomas Harrison)
Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. (Quote by - Madonna)
He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. (Quote by - William Lyon Mackenzie King)
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. (Quote by - Wilfrid Sheed)
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man--public opinion. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
Morality is a private and costly luxury. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams)
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences. (Quote by - Lynne Cheney)
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. (Quote by - Charles A. Dana)
'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. (Quote by - W S Gilbert)
Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you. (Quote by - Arab Proverb)
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them. (Quote by - George Bush)
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. (Quote by - Plutarch)
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. (Quote by - Democritus)
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. (Quote by - Thomas H. Huxley)
I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. (Quote by - Brendan Fraser)
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there. (Quote by - Monica Lewinsky)
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with. (Quote by - Steve Nash)
They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion. (Quote by - Rafael Palmeiro)
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into. (Quote by - Leonard Nimoy)
The beginning of thought is in disagreement- not only with others but also with ouselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. (Quote by - Tim McGraw)
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. (Quote by - Frank B. Kellogg)
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. (Quote by - John Acton)
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. (Quote by - Anthony Holden)
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. (Quote by - Sallust)
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. (Quote by - Michael Schumacher)
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. (Quote by - Stephen Sondheim)
Prejudice is opinion without judgement. (Quote by - Voltaire)
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard. (Quote by - David Allen)
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. (Quote by - Alanis Morissette)
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. (Quote by - Henri Coanda)
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces. (Quote by - S. L. Clemens)
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. (Quote by - Billy Joel)
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words. (Quote by - Henry L. Stimson)
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? (Quote by - Thomas Babington)
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. (Quote by - William Graham Sumner)
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. (Quote by - Robert MacNeil)
I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury. (Quote by - George Joachim)
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. (Quote by - George Savile)
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
Knowledge is true opinion. (Quote by - Plato)
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. (Quote by - Bruce Grocott)
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. (Quote by - Frederick Scott Oliver)
I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. (Quote by - Peter Steele)
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. (Quote by - Sandra Cisneros)
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasow)
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. (Quote by - Edward Bernays)
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. (Quote by - Joseph Goebbels)
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. (Quote by - Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion. (Quote by - Jeffrey Goines)
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion. (Quote by - Harold H. Greene)
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. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud. (Quote by - Yitzhak Navon)
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The world is governed by opinion. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)
I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think. (Quote by - Willa Ford)
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. (Quote by - Anna Freud)
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. (Quote by - Maggie Gyllenhaal)
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party. (Quote by - John Keats)
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts. (Quote by - George Chapman)
I agree, she has a good backhand, but that's it. Not a good serve. She plays well, obviously. From my opinion, it's nothing special. (Quote by - Magui Serna)
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. (Quote by - Frank B. Kellogg)
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. (Quote by - James Madison)
With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. (Quote by - Plato)
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)
In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult. (Quote by - Valentino Rossi)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. (Quote by - Jacques Lacan)
It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs. (Quote by - Penelope Fitzgerald)
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the Republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all. (Quote by - Guy Green)
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. (Quote by - Marcel Pagnol)
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. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. (Quote by - Michael Crichton)
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. (Quote by - Talleyrand)
So many men, so many opinions. (Quote by - Terence)
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. (Quote by - Amber Tamblyn)
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. (Quote by - Sallust)
Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them. (Quote by - Georg Lichtenberg)
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time. (Quote by - Helmut Jahn)
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace. (Quote by - Frank B. Kellogg)
My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will. (Quote by - Ruben Studdard)
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. (Quote by - Neil Patrick Harris)
You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. (Quote by - Fulke Greville)
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. (Quote by - Plutarch)
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
There are as many opinions as there are experts. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. (Quote by - William Jones)
As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
In America, public opinion is the leader. (Quote by - Frances Perkins)
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi (Quote by - Luis Walter Alvarez)
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere. (Quote by - Emma Anderson)
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. (Quote by - William Godwin)
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took. (Quote by - Lynette Fromme)
In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society. (Quote by - Kenzo Tange)
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Three Spaniards, four opinions. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. (Quote by - Anthony Holden)
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. (Quote by - Bertrand Russel)
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. (Quote by - Francis Jeffrey)
Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is. (Quote by - Bertrand Russel)
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
The more opinions you have, the less you see. (Quote by - Wim Wenders)
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. (Quote by - Frances Burney)
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. (Quote by - Gustav Mahler)
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwel)
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. (Quote by - Sallust)
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods- moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former- but no opinion. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)
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. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. (Quote by - John Erskine)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (Quote by - John Locke)
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right. (Quote by - Bill Dixon)
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. (Quote by - Jeanne-Marie Roland)
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not. (Quote by - Payne Stewart)
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.' (Quote by - W B Yeats)
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management. (Quote by - Richard Gough)
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. (Quote by - David Attenborough)
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Jackie Robinson)
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. (Quote by - Joseph de Maistre)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. (Quote by - Ulysses S Grant)
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion. (Quote by - Willie Stargell)
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. (Quote by - Pierre Bayle)
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds (Quote by - Martial)
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. (Quote by - Gustav Mahler)
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that. (Quote by - Deborah Cox)
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts (Quote by - Finley Dunne)
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. (Quote by - Grantland Rice)
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. (Quote by - Manfred von Richthofen)
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft)
Self-actualised people are independent of the good opinion of others. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. (Quote by - Hubert Humphrey)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Have a definite opinion. (Quote by - William Safire)
Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on. (Quote by - Toby Keith)
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. (Quote by - Thomas Beecham)
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. (Quote by - Epictetus)
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. (Quote by - Barry White)
I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. (Quote by - Lord Samuel)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity. (Quote by - Greg Norman)
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. (Quote by - Plato)
Mark has been a big part of my success in the last 10 months and we had a great run together, but we've had a difference of opinion regarding some aspects of my game. (Quote by - Andrew Murray)
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. (Quote by - Senator Patrick Leahy)
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. (Quote by - Curtis Lemay)
Public opinion in this country is everything. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. (Quote by - Nicolas de Chamfort)
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. (Quote by - John Milton)
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. (Quote by - Henry James)
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. (Quote by - John Berger)
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
Opinion is the queen of the world. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. (Quote by - Horace)
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. (Quote by - Mary Astell)
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion. (Quote by - Margaret Forster)
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. (Quote by - Adolf Galland)
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless. (Quote by - Shia LaBeouf)
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. (Quote by - Aaron Eckhart)
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. (Quote by - Voltaire)
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. (Quote by - Paul Farmer)
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. (Quote by - Bible)
Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think. (Quote by - Alfred Austin)
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. (Quote by - William Gilbert)
Facts are stubborn things. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?. (Quote by - Oleg Kiselev)
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (Quote by - William Blake)
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. (Quote by - Robert Redford)
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful. (Quote by - Leo Bogart)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
We had a discussion but I didn't ask for his opinion. (Quote by - Raymond Domenech)
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. (Quote by - Neil Gaiman)
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. (Quote by - Walter Raleigh)
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song. (Quote by - Deborah Cox)
I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced any vote. (Quote by - Sir James Ferguson)
We had a referee who in my opinion wasn't up to the required standard and that isn't bleating about the referee. (Quote by - Steve Cotterill)
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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. (Quote by - Sargent Shriver)
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me. (Quote by - Conrad Black)
We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public thinks so. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
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. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem. (Quote by - Michael Berryman)
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them. (Quote by - Roy H. Williams)
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. (Quote by - John Selden)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. (Quote by - Lester Markel)
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. (Quote by - Paul Dirac)
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinion and uncommon abilities. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song. (Quote by - Sarah McLachlan)
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. (Quote by - Bethania McKenstry)
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein. (Quote by - Charles Gounod)
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. (Quote by - John Dawkins)
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. (Quote by - George Gallup)
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' (Quote by - Tommy Cooper)
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
They can say I have an opinion about something. (Quote by - Dan Abrams)
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum. (Quote by - Wolcott Gibbs)
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
