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You 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 Greville

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

It does not matter if you think I'm clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid.
Thomas Harrison

I'm no bimbo. I'm opinionated and I do have a brain...
Christina Aguilera

Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to majority opinion.
Hugh Scanlon

The 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 Smith

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph Inge

I'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 Green

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise Pascal

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron

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.
John Stuart Mill

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter

I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George Joachim

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
Erle Gardner

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world
Thomas Carlyle

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts
Finley Dunne

We 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 Cotterill

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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own
Sir James Mackintosh

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them
Flannery O'Connor

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
Charles Clarke

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
Greg Norman

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph Goebbels

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Dame Edith Sitwell

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret Forster

Polling 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 Gallup

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E M Forster

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Neil Gaiman

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.
Virginia Woolf

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahon

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]
Michael Schumacher

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
Michael Crichton

Central Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois Bozize

Performers 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 Dent

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael Howard

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

I 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

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John Selden

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan Brien

'Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.' (On Jayne Mansfield)
Bette Davis



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