Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan BrienThe world is governed by opinion.
Thomas HobbesIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
PlutarchI have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced any vote (Attributed)
Sir James FergusonIf you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIdolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John SeldenThis is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere. [on record companies manipulating public opinion]
Emma AndersonA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De GoncourtI am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
W B YeatsA baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl SandburgPopular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart MillThere is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael HowardToo often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F KennedyIf there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
Samuel ButlerThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroComedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
Matt Lucas'Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.' (On Jayne Mansfield)
Bette DavisCentral Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois BozizeEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus AureliusGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack KerouacIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahonIn 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.
TocquevilleMy opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.
Charles GounodEvery day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord ByronWe had a referee who in my opinion wasn't up to the required standard and that isn't bleating about the referee [lost the game then, Steve?]
Steve CotterillErrors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas JeffersonI agree, she has a good backhand, but that's it. Not a good serve. She plays well, obviously. From my opinion, it's nothing special. (On Sesil Karatancheva)
Magui Serna'When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!'
AnonymousPrejudice is opinion without judgement.
VoltaireMark has been a big part of my success in the last 10 months and we had a great run together, but we've had a difference of opinion regarding some aspects of my game. [on sacking Mark Petchey as coach]
Andrew MurrayIt is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph GoebbelsThere is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas HuxleyI believe that artists should never relinquish all production control, which, in my opinion, is entering dangerous territory.
Veruca SaltBetween friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H AudenThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
Luis Walter AlvarezWe had a discussion but I didn't ask for his opinion [on Mourinho moaning]
Raymond DomenechMen are never so good or so bad as their opinions
Sir James MackintoshYou may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them
Fulke GrevilleThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph JoubertPublic opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph IngeI've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the Republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all. [Possibly expressing an opinion that it shouldn't go anywhere at all there, Guy Green?]
Guy GreenWe 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.
John Stuart MillThe greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo BurnettPolling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George GallupThe more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim WendersThe theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam SmithThe 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.
Bob WellsThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusPerformers who discourse strong political opinions often seem aghast that some people respond negatively to them: in the form of not attending their performances, or not buying their music, or opposing their speaking at other entertainment venues.
Lester DentA 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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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