Opinions Quotes
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
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)
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. (Quote by - Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards)
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. (Quote by - James Reston)
Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world. (Quote by - Anonymous)
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. (Quote by - Cicero)
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)
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal? (Quote by - Peter McWilliams)
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. (Quote by - Marcel Pagnol)
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. (Quote by - Frederick William Robertson)
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. (Quote by - Admiral Grace Hopper)
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known. (Quote by - Bill Lipinski)
I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions. (Quote by - Avi Arad)
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Actors always have opinions. (Quote by - Joe Pantoliano)
Opinion is the queen of the world. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
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 )
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel. (Quote by - Antoine Fuqua)
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. (Quote by - Herbert V. Prochnow)
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Reason, with most people, means their own opinions. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice. (Quote by - Amy Irving)
Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. (Quote by - Madonna)
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. (Quote by - Clarence Thomas)
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The deep slumber of a decided opinion. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. (Quote by - Stockwell Day)
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments. (Quote by - Wilfrid Laurier)
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. (Quote by - Jeff Vandermeer)
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat. (Quote by - Jon Fishman)
He that never changes his opinion never corrects 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)
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. (Quote by - Toi Derricotte)
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. (Quote by - Matt Lucas)
In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions. (Quote by - James Mackintosh)
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)
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more. (Quote by - Florence Griffith-Joyner)
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. (Quote by - Jules Feiffer)
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
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 made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There are as many opinions as there are experts. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
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)
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. (Quote by - Charles M. Schwab)
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. (Quote by - John Dryden)
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves. (Quote by - Charlotte Rampling)
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions. (Quote by - Judy Chicago)
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
Facts are stubborn things. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
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)
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. (Quote by - Thomas H. Huxley)
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. (Quote by - A. C. Benson)
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
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)
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
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)
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)
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. (Quote by - Georg Cantor)
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)
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. (Quote by - Jim McKay)
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up. (Quote by - Roger Ebert)
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing. (Quote by - Horace)
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)
Morality is a private and costly luxury. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams)
Comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. (Quote by - Matt Lucas)
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)
He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself! (Quote by - Erle Gardner)
The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions. (Quote by - Jane Byrne)
Public opinion in this country is everything. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It is not often that an opinion is worth expressing, which cannot take care of itself. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. (Quote by - Angelina Jolie)
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
He that never changes his opinions, and never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. (Quote by - Tyron Edwards)
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
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)
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art. (Quote by - Charles McCabe)
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. (Quote by - Marshall Mcluhan)
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. (Quote by - William Temple)
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you. (Quote by - Arab Proverb)
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)
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. (Quote by - Victoria Woodhull)
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. (Quote by - James Madison)
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. (Quote by - Daisy Bates)
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. (Quote by - Charles A Dana)
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. (Quote by - John Dawkins)
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. (Quote by - Nicolas de Chamfort)
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. (Quote by - Booth Tarkington)
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (Quote by - William Blake)
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. (Quote by - John Grierson)
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Freedom rings where opinions clash. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else. (Quote by - Anonymous)
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus)
What you think of me is none of my business. (Quote by - Terry Cole-Whittaker)
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
People's opinions don't interfere with me. (Quote by - Jeanne Moreau)
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. (Quote by - Caleb Cushing)
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me. (Quote by - Judd Nelson)
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. (Quote by - Roy Moore)
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known. (Quote by - Penn Jillette)
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care. (Quote by - Kim Basinger)
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. (Quote by - Julius Wellhausen)
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft)
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. (Quote by - John Erskine)
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)
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions. (Quote by - Shannen Doherty)
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
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)
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. (Quote by - Anonymous)
God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
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)
Men are only as loyal as their options. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
It is difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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)
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions. (Quote by - Zen Saying)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. (Quote by - Patrick Leahy)
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did. (Quote by - Jimmy Carl Black)
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg )
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)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (Quote by - John Locke)
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)
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
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)
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger. (Quote by - Neil Young)
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. (Quote by - Anonymous)
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want. (Quote by - Julius Rosenberg)
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. (Quote by - Franz Grillparzer)
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. (Quote by - Jeanne Shaheen)
Central Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment. (Quote by - Francois Bozize)
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
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)
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud. (Quote by - Yitzhak Navon)
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion. (Quote by - Lester Markel)
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
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)
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)
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)
A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed. (Quote by - James Woods)
I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life. (Quote by - Jenna Bush)
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. (Quote by - Francis Wright)
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob. (Quote by - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)
You can be young and still have views and opinions. (Quote by - Joanna Noelle Levesque)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him. (Quote by - G. C Lichtenberg)
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. (Quote by - Luke Ford)
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. (Quote by - Alyssa Milano)
There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion. (Quote by - Jeffrey Goines)
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. (Quote by - John Morley)
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 - W. R. Inge)
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
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)
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. (Quote by - Edward F. Halifax)
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own. (Quote by - Sir James Mackintosh)
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. (Quote by - Carol Bellamy)
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. (Quote by - Charles Evans Hughes)
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. (Quote by - Steven Pinker)
Money has no moral opinions. (Quote by - Abraham Polonsky)
If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be? (Quote by - Anonymous)
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. (Quote by - Anthony Collins)
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
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)
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)
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. (Quote by - James Madison)
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth. (Quote by - Eleanor Clift)
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)
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. (Quote by - David H. Souter)
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. (Quote by - George Earle Buckle)
Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them. (Quote by - Georg Lichtenberg )
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde )
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. (Quote by - Maimonides)
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. (Quote by - Yves Tanguy)
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)
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. (Quote by - John Fiske)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
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)
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters. (Quote by - Pat Toomey)
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
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)
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. (Quote by - George Duhamel)
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)
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. (Quote by - Boyd Rice)
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)
If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality. (Quote by - Darren L. Johnson)
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)
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. (Quote by - Robert Jackson)
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. (Quote by - Henry Taylor)
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. (Quote by - Irving Batcheller)
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. (Quote by - E. B. White)
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions. (Quote by - Chick Corea)
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. (Quote by - Walter Pater )
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. (Quote by - Alan Brien)
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. (Quote by - Ernestine L. Rose)
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions. (Quote by - Joan Blades)
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. (Quote by - Cass Elliot)
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay. (Quote by - Brody Armstrong)
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)
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. (Quote by - T. Berry Brazelton)
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. (Quote by - Queen Victoria)
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
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)
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. (Quote by - Bernard M. Baruch)
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)
You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts. (Quote by - Anonymous)
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. (Quote by - Klopstock)
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. (Quote by - Lord Samuel)
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. (Quote by - Eartha Kitt)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwel)
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. (Quote by - George H. W. Bush)
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. (Quote by - Shirley Manson)
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
A small town is usually divided by a railroad, a main street, two churches, and a lot of opinions. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it. (Quote by - Jeane Platiere)
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)
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. (Quote by - Les Brown)
So many men, so many opinions. (Quote by - Terence)
A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it. (Quote by - Anonymous)
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 - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
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)
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. (Quote by - Richard J. Needham)
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
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)
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
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)
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)
But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters. (Quote by - Joseph Barber Lightfoot)
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there. (Quote by - Ann Rule)
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting. (Quote by - Stephen Collins)
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. (Quote by - James Madison)
Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. (Quote by - Epictetus)
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard. (Quote by - David Allen)
In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, That grace is founded in dominion. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. (Quote by - Ben Affleck)
This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions. (Quote by - Bob Kane)
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. (Quote by - Millicent Fawcett)
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. (Quote by - George Weinberg)
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
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)
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. (Quote by - Edmond De Goncourt)
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)
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. (Quote by - Paul Chatfield)
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)
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)
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)
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)
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. (Quote by - Francis Jeffrey)
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. (Quote by - Daniel Okrent)
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. (Quote by - Alexander Mackenzie)
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. (Quote by - Marcus Antonius)
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. (Quote by - Gary Coleman)
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)
The Englishman respects your opinions, but he never thinks of your feelings. (Quote by - Wilfrid Laurier)
The more opinions you have, the less you see. (Quote by - Wim Wenders)
Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. (Quote by - John Tyler)
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)
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)
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. (Quote by - A. E. Housman)
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
Public opinion is a second conscience. (Quote by - William R. Alger)
There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think. (Quote by - Alfred Austin)
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass? (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. (Quote by - Plato)
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)
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. (Quote by - Francis Wright)
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions. (Quote by - Frederick William Robertson)
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
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)
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
