If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart MillThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
Luis Walter AlvarezA 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 GyllenhaalIdolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John SeldenWe 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 CotterillIt is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph GoebbelsWe 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 MillA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettConscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorForce rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise PascalThere is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas HuxleyLoyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainIt is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.
Penelope FitzgeraldIt 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.
PlutarchIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahonWith 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 SchumacherEvery man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William HazlittThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusPolling 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 GallupIf 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 ButlerAlcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts
Finley DunneNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg LichtenbergIt is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'
W B YeatsA baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl SandburgIf you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe world has reached such a degree of interdependence... that international cooperation has become essential... the only self-supporting region of the world is the whole world... Only one opinion and only one market cover the face of the earth.
Salvador De MadariagaStay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf 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'Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.' (On Jayne Mansfield)
Bette DavisI 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.
Bertrand RussellThere is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world
Paul DiracMen are never so good or so bad as their opinions
Sir James MackintoshPopular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart MillI have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George JoachimOne cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacarthurComedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
Matt LucasDon't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg LichtenbergThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroWorks 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 ForsterI 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 YeatsThere never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S GrantYes 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 ClarkeThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesThe 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 SmithNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
John LockeA constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinion and uncommon abilities.
Walter BagehotEverywhere 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'ConnorThe greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo BurnettNo one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W S GilbertEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
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