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. ~By Zhuangzi ~
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. ~By Tanith Lee ~
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. ~By John Maynard Keynes ~
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. ~By Willa Ford ~
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. ~By William Westmoreland ~
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. ~By J. G. Holland ~
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. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. ~By Joe Pantoliano ~
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. ~By Jane Austen ~
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. ~By Bob Kane ~
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
They can say I have an opinion about something. ~By Dan Abrams ~
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. ~By Walter Bagehot ~
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world. ~By John Doolittle ~
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. ~By James Reston ~
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. ~By Maimonides ~
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. ~By Kate Smith ~
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. ~By John Stuart Mill ~
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. ~By Clarence Thomas ~
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. ~By Edward W. Howe ~
A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team. ~By Mitch Gaylord ~
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. ~By William Temple ~
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. ~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ~By A. R. Ammons ~
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors. ~By Hans Blix ~
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. ~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics. ~By Danielle Dax ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. ~By Peter Coyote ~
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ~By Dan Rather ~
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. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. ~By Daniel Webster ~
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
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. ~By William Godwin ~
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ~By Victor Hugo ~
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. ~By Caleb Cushing ~
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary. ~By Alcee Hastings ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ~By Roy Moore ~
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ~By John Sergeant Wise ~
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. ~By Matt Lucas ~
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. ~By Kenzo Tange ~
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. ~By Charles Babbage ~
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. ~By William Faulkner ~
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ~By Frances Burney ~
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ~By James F. Cooper ~
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ~By John Dawkins ~
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud. ~By Yitzhak Navon ~
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. ~By Tim McGraw ~
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. ~By Emma Lazarus ~
Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion. ~By David O. Selznick ~
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion. ~By Harold H. Greene ~
So many men, so many opinions. ~By Terence ~
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ~By Francis Bacon ~
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ~By Robert Peel ~
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. ~By Phillips Brooks ~
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. ~By Joseph Joubert ~
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. ~By Epictetus ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ~By Edmund Burke ~
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. ~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. ~By Franz Grillparzer ~
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. ~By Deborah Cox ~
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. ~By Francis Bacon ~
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. ~By Roger Ascham ~
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. ~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another. ~By Henry John Temple ~
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever. ~By William Shirley ~
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ~By Robert Jackson ~
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ~By Harriet Martineau ~
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. ~By Lenny Kravitz ~
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. ~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
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. ~By Amber Tamblyn ~
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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. ~By Edmund Burke ~
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. ~By Donald Norman ~
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do. ~By Maurice Ashley ~
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. ~By Anthony Holden ~
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God. ~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for. ~By Paul Tagliabue ~
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ~By Carl Sandburg ~
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. ~By Harold Brodkey ~
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. ~By Ernst Haeckel ~
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. ~By Edward Bond ~
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ~By Clarence Darrow ~
While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ~By Paul Bremer ~
People's opinions don't interfere with me. ~By Jeanne Moreau ~
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. ~By Karel Reisz ~
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. ~By Flannery O'Connor ~
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice. ~By Amy Irving ~
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. ~By William Butler Yeats ~
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