300 Quotes on Opinion

• Like bits of uncolored glass, nurturing our idle curiosities adds imagination to our lost time, revealing secrets we never knew lay awaiting.

  Author: Mira Caldicott

• To bridge the light-years between worlds, diplomacy must reach not only across distances but hearts--true understanding wears neither uniform acronyms nor hierarchical ambition.

  Author: Eleauab Mentorfrey

• The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I only asked for pizza.

  Author: Kevin Fosdal

• Success is not defined by opportunities handed to you, but by the choices you make when faced with adversity.

  Author: Samantha Smith

• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  Author: William Yeats

• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Author: Rick Wright

• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

  Author: John Wise

• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  Author: James Wilson

• One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

  Author: Roy Williams

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

  Author: Barry White

• In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

  Author: William Whipple

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  Author: John Wheeler

• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  Author: Otto Weininger

• Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

  Author: Charles Warner

• I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Author: Voltaire

• In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.

  Author: Vinnie Vincent

• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Author: Alan Vega

• Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

  Author: William Tyndale

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

  Author: Mark Twain

• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Author: Mark Twain

• I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

  Author: Alan Turing

• I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

  Author: John Trumbull

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

  Author: Harry Truman

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  Author: Lars Trier

• In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

  Author: Henry Temple

• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  Author: A. Taylor

• The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

  Author: Kenzo Tange

• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

  Author: Paul Tagliabue

• I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

  Author: William Sumner

• My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

  Author: Peter Steele

• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

  Author: Lesley Stahl

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  Author: Madame Stael

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

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

  Author: Albert Speer

• It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

  Author: David Souter

• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

  Author: Michael Smith

• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

  Author: Gordon Smith

• The 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.

  Author: Adam Smith

• We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• 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.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  Author: George Simpson

• No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

  Author: William Simms

• Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  Author: William Shirley

• And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

  Author: Rupert Sheldrake

• One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

  Author: Wilfrid Sheed

• In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.

  Author: Alia Shawkat

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  Author: Yitzhak Shamir

• Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

  Author: David Selznick

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

  Author: John Selden

• They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.

  Author: William Scranton

• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

  Author: Jim Saxton

• They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

  Author: George Savile

• Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

  Author: John Saul

• Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  Author: Sallust

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  Author: Sallust

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  Author: Sallust

• Have a definite opinion.

  Author: William Safire

• So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

  Author: Roberto Rossellini

• My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  Author: Elihu Root

• Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

  Author: Elihu Root

• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Author: Grantland Rice

• I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

  Author: Debbie Reynolds

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Author: Karel Reisz

• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  Author: B. Reece

• Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

  Author: Robert Redford

• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Author: Dan Rather

• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Author: Dan Rather

• It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  Author: J. Priestley

• Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

  Author: Plutarch

• It 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.

  Author: Plutarch

• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Author: Plato

• Knowledge is true opinion.

  Author: Plato

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  Author: Dana Plato

• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

  Author: William Petty

• In America, public opinion is the leader.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

  Author: Robert Peel

• The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

  Author: Robert Peel

• No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

  Author: Robert Peel

• Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

  Author: James Payn

• The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

  Author: Marcel Pagnol

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  Author: Origen

• It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

  Author: Harry Oppenheimer

• I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

  Author: Harry Oppenheimer

• All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

  Author: Ed O'Neill

• You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Author: Flannery O'Connor

• Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

  Author: Kate O'Brien

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  Author: Barack Obama

• In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

  Author: Donald Norman

• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Author: Albert Nock

• As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

  Author: Albert Nock

• I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

  Author: Yannick Noah

• You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

  Author: Steve Nash

• In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

  Author: George Murray

• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

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

  Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

• I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  Author: Daniel Moynihan

• It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

  Author: Simon Morris

• In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

  Author: Alanis Morissette

• In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

  Author: Sun Moon

• I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

  Author: Ronnie Montrose

• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

  Author: Elizabeth Montagu

• The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

  Author: Alfred Molina

• Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

  Author: Gretchen Mol

• 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.

  Author: John Mill

• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

  Author: John Mill

• If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  Author: John Mill

• They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

  Author: John Mica

• When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

  Author: Jim Messina

• Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

  Author: Charles Merrill

• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  Author: H. Mencken

• 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  Author: Phyllis McGinley

• In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

  Author: John McCarthy

• My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

  Author: John McCarthy

• Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

  Author: Debi Mazar

• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

  Author: Andre Maurois

• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  Author: W. Maugham

• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  Author: W. Maugham

• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  Author: Harriet Martineau

• Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

  Author: Walter Martin

• The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

  Author: Thomas Malthus

• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  Author: Maimonides

• Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

  Author: Gustav Mahler

• I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

  Author: Ali MacGraw

• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

  Author: Lyle Lovett

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  Author: H. Lovecraft

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• Public opinion in this country is everything.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

  Author: Bob Lilly

• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

  Author: Joseph Lewis

• As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail.

  Author: Al Lewis

• So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

  Author: Curtis Lemay

• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  Author: Tanith Lee

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

  Author: Emma Lazarus

• The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

  Author: Serge Lang

• But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

  Author: Jacques Lacan

• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

  Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

• I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

  Author: Dennis Kucinich

• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

  Author: William King

• Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

  Author: Richard King

• The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

  Author: Peter King

• Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

  Author: Mackenzie King

• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  Author: Soren Kierkegaard

• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

  Author: John Keynes

• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  Author: John Keynes

• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Author: Jack Kerouac

• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  Author: John Kennedy

• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

  Author: Toby Keith

• The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  Author: Moshe Katsav

• In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

  Author: Marion Jones

• It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

  Author: Billy Joel

• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  Author: Alfred Jodl

• Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

  Author: Henry James

• Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

  Author: Robert Jackson

• Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

  Author: Robert Jackson

• It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  Author: William Inge

• It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  Author: Dean Inge

• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• In the midst of enterprise myths thrives a wilderness governed by algorithmic grace, revealing complexities and symmetries our senses often overlook.

  Author: Avery Thornton

• I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.

  Author: Joseph Hume

• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

  Author: John Hume

• From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

  Author: Johan Huizinga

• Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

  Author: Charles Hughes

• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  Author: Edward Howe

• Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  Author: Larry Holmes

• Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

  Author: J. Holland

• My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

  Author: Harri Holkeri

• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

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

  Author: Hippocrates

• Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

  Author: Hippocrates

• Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

  Author: David Hilbert

• Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

  Author: John Hickenlooper

• At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

  Author: Jim Henson

• I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

  Author: Ken Hensley

• It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

  Author: Arthur Henderson

• In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

  Author: Arthur Henderson

• Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

  Author: Roy Hattersley

• The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

  Author: Townsend Harris

• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  Author: Neil Harris

• Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  Author: Rafik Hariri

• A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

  Author: Augustus Hare

• My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

  Author: Thomas Hardy

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