Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg LichtenbergThere is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael HowardMy 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 GounodStay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan BrienThose who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own
Sir James MackintoshHe that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel ButlerIf 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 MillForce rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise PascalIn 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, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm MuggeridgePolling 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 GallupThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
Luis Walter AlvarezToo often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F KennedyOn good friend Nicole Kidman:
'I've never worked with her. I met her through a couple good girlfriends of mine. She has a great sense of humor. She laughs easily. I like hanging out with people who laugh easily. Contrary to popular opinion, I like to be a little silly.'
Russell Crowe'When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!'
AnonymousIt 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 YeatsRisk! 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 MansfieldEverywhere 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'ConnorNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
John LockeI 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 RussellI've never been influenced by their opinions anyway but now we are talking tennis and they didn't know anything [on tennis journalists].
Tim HenmanA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De GoncourtEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus AureliusThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesIt is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph GoebbelsThe 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 SmithI 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 NormanThe more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim WendersEvery man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William HazlittThere never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S GrantOpinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.
Norman TebbitThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre MauroisThe 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 WellsPeople talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret ForsterThere 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 DiracWhere 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 MiltonOpinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord ByronIf 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 ButlerGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack KerouacComedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
Matt LucasStay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 SitwellDon'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.
Robert G AllenDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellDon't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg LichtenbergThe world is governed by opinion.
Thomas HobbesEvery 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 ByronOf course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to majority opinion.
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