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 ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
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 opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
~By Matt Lucas ~
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
~By John Dawkins ~
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
~By Judd Nelson ~
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.
~By Joseph De Maistre ~
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
~By Chick Corea ~
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
~By Penn Jillette ~
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
~By James Payn ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
~By Debra Messing ~
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
~By Edmond About ~
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.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
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.
~By John Tyler ~
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~By Frances Wright ~
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
~By Pete Seeger ~
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
~By James Madison ~
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
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.
~By Martin Luther ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
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.
~By John Grierson ~
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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.
~By Ben Affleck ~
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 ~
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.
~By Rick Barry ~
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 ~
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
~By George H. W. Bush ~
The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
~By Jane Byrne ~
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
~By John Locke ~
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.
~By Roger Ebert ~
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.
~By Gary Coleman ~
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.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
~By George Weinberg ~
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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.
~By Avi Arad ~
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.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
~By Ernest Renan ~
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
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 ~
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
~By James Mackintosh ~
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
~By Pat Toomey ~
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.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
~By Ben Hecht ~
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
~By T. Berry Brazelton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By James Woods ~
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
~By Steven Pinker ~
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
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.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Money has no moral opinions.
~By Abraham Polonsky ~
You can be young and still have views and opinions.
~By Joanna Noelle Levesque ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
~By Roy Moore ~
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
~By George Byron ~
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 ~
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
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.
~By Stockwell Day ~
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.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
~By Yitzhak Navon ~
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
~By James Reston ~
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
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.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.
~By Stephen Harper ~
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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.
~By Neil Young ~
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~By Gerald Brenan ~
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