A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
~By Robert Hall ~
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
~By Ernest Renan ~
I was always opinionated.
~By Kim Novak ~
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.
~By A. C. Benson ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
~By Alan Turing ~
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
~By Phil Lesh ~
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
~By Mary Astell ~
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
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 ~
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
~By Kate O'Brien ~
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
~By Daisy Bates ~
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
~By Jane Austen ~
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
~By Richard King ~
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.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
~By Peter McWilliams ~
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.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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.
~By James Madison ~
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 ~
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~By Gerald Brenan ~
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
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.
~By Paul Goodman ~
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~By Jane Austen ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
~By Coco Chanel ~
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.
~By John McCarthy ~
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
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 ~
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
~By Sarah Palin ~
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
~By Henry John Temple ~
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.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
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.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
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.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
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.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
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.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
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.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~By Gelett Burgess ~
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.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
~By John Biddle ~
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.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
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.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
~By John Dawkins ~
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
~By William Devane ~
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.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.
~By Mike Rounds ~
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
~By Elizabeth Montagu ~
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
~By John Morley ~
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
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.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
~By Yitzhak Shamir ~
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
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.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
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.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
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.
~By A. E. Housman ~
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
~By Yves Tanguy ~
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
~By Leo Burnett ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Boyd Rice ~
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 ~
Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
~By Daniel Okrent ~
Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.
~By John Anderson ~
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 ~
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
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