Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to majority opinion.
Hugh ScanlonIf 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 MillPeople talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret ForsterA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettPrejudice is opinion without judgement.
VoltaireI have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.
Sir James FergussonRisk! 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 MansfieldToo often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F KennedyWe cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Chuang TzuI 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 ChristieForce rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise PascalPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world
Thomas CarlyleNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg LichtenbergIt 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 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 RussellDon'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 AllenI 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 CarterHe that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel ButlerThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusThe world is governed by opinion.
Thomas HobbesStay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 WellsThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesAnd don't consult anyone's opinions but your own (Satires)
PersiusThe 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 MadariagaPolling 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 GallupEvery man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William HazlittIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahonErrors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas JeffersonIdolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
John SeldenI 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 SernaWe 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 CrichtonWhere 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 MiltonIf 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 ButlerThis is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere. [on record companies manipulating public opinion]
Emma AndersonLies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconYou 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 GrevilleMy opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre MauroisI 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 YeatsIn my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S TrumanI've never been influenced by their opinions anyway but now we are talking tennis and they didn't know anything [on tennis journalists].
Tim HenmanNo one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W S GilbertWith 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 SchumacherPublic opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph IngeA 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 GyllenhaalI have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George JoachimLoyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainAnd there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Neil GaimanIt does not matter if you think I'm clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid.
Thomas Harrison
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