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The 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 Wells

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W S Gilbert

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

This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere. [on record companies manipulating public opinion]
Emma Anderson

I believe that artists should never relinquish all production control, which, in my opinion, is entering dangerous territory.
Veruca Salt

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

The 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 Madariaga

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

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

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

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 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

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own (Satires)
Persius

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William Jones

It 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 Yeats

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinion and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
John Locke

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

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Wim Wenders

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

In 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.
Tocqueville

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S Grant

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

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

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De Goncourt

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced any vote (Attributed)
Sir James Ferguson

I 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

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world
Thomas Carlyle

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

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg Lichtenberg

Every 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 Byron

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler

It 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 Fitzgerald

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

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

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo Burnett

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H Auden

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph Joubert

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S Truman

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

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

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire



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