I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ~By Edward Gibbon ~
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. ~By Cass Elliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. ~By Herbert V. Prochnow ~
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ~By Walter Bagehot ~
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 ~
Actors always have opinions. ~By Joe Pantoliano ~
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. ~By Daniel Okrent ~
The more opinions you have, the less you see. ~By Wim Wenders ~
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ~By Edmund Burke ~
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~By William Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By Jules Feiffer ~
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters. ~By Pat Toomey ~
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 ~
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. ~By Adam Duritz ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. ~By Josh Billings ~
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me. ~By Judd Nelson ~
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. ~By David Attenborough ~
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 ~
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own. ~By Anthony Collins ~
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 ~
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 ~
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ~By Virginia Woolf ~
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~By George Stigler ~
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 ~
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. ~By Joseph Joubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. ~By Toi Derricotte ~
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. ~By George Weinberg ~
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. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ~By Samuel Butler ~
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. ~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. ~By John Morley ~
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ~By Walter Benjamin ~
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ~By Elbert Hubbard ~
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. ~By Angelina Jolie ~
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ~By Booth Tarkington ~
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. ~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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 have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. ~By Harold Brodkey ~
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 ~
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 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. ~By Judy Chicago ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ~By Roy Moore ~
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 ~
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. ~By Josh Billings ~
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 ~
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ~By Elizabeth I ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. ~By Daisy Bates ~
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. ~By Phillips Brooks ~
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ~By Bob Wells ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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. ~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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. ~By Robert Jackson ~
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. ~By Luke Ford ~
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ~By John Dawkins ~
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. ~By Millicent Fawcett ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character. ~By Luke Scott ~
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. ~By Ernest Renan ~
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. ~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
So many men, so many opinions. ~By Terence ~
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. ~By Georg Cantor ~
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal? ~By Peter McWilliams ~
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ~By Lord Acton ~
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ~By Victor Hugo ~
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. ~By Stephen Collins ~
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 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 ~
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~By Edward F. Halifax ~
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 ~
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. ~By Alexander Mackenzie ~
There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable. ~By Pauley Perrette ~
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
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 ~
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. ~By Laurence Sterne ~
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. ~By John Stuart Mill ~
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ~By George H. W. Bush ~
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 ~
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 ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ~By Charles Spalding ~
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 ~
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 ~
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. ~By John Locke ~
The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions. ~By Jane Byrne ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. ~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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