If 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 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 SitwellStay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan BrienThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
Luis Walter AlvarezThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroI 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 world is governed by opinion.
Thomas HobbesI have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced any vote (Attributed)
Sir James FergusonThe 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 WellsIt takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph IngeConscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorPublic opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph IngePolling 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 GallupA 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 GyllenhaalIt 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 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 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 MansfieldOpinion 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 more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim WendersMy opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William JonesThe two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo CoelhoThe greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo BurnettIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds
MartialA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De GoncourtDon'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 AllenA wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott OliverMy 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 GounodI 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 Russell'Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.' (On Jayne Mansfield)
Bette DavisPerformers 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 DentIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahonThere is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael HowardWe 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 CrichtonIt 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 FitzgeraldLoyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainThere is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas HuxleyMark 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 MurrayNo 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 AureliusEvery 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 ByronI 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 ChristieIf you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheOpinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord ByronPeople talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret ForsterAnd there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Neil GaimanOne 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 MacarthurI've never been influenced by their opinions anyway but now we are talking tennis and they didn't know anything [on tennis journalists].
Tim HenmanIf 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.
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