That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. Votes: 3
Thomas HuxleyOpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Votes: 3
Herbert SpencerThe opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. Votes: 3
Elisabeth Kubler-RossOpinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Votes: 3
Marcus AureliusThe fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Votes: 3
Bertrand RussellI never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Votes: 2
Edward GibbonDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Votes: 2
Bertrand RussellThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Votes: 2
EpictetusContrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. Votes: 2
Fran LebowitzThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Votes: 2
Fyodor DostoevskyThere is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Votes: 1
Winston ChurchillGray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. Votes: 1
Gerhard RichterObjective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. Votes: 1
Walter CronkitePeople do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Votes: 1
Ralph Waldo EmersonNone are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. Votes: 1
Charles SpurgeonWhat is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another. Votes: 0
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount PalmerstonPower's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. Votes: 0
Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd BaronetAre right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? Votes: 0
William Lloyd GarrisonWithout meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheNothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion ... Votes: 0
Letitia Elizabeth LandonGenuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeScience is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanPublic opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. Votes: 0
Nicolas ChamfortPublic opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. Votes: 0
Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-CarterPublic opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellNo well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroPublic opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. Votes: 0
Frank B. KelloggOne person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroOur enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldA government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltIs uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonNothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway. Votes: 0
Yanis VaroufakisLaw is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsThere is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThe feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. Votes: 0
Augustus William HareBut fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareStubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneTelling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzCow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiJudges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... Votes: 0
Warren E. BurgerIf a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion. Votes: 0
Muhammad Taqi UsmaniIt often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergIn my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. Votes: 0
Denzel WashingtonErrors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonIt's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life. Votes: 0
Sherry StringfieldYou are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine. Votes: 0
Michelle N. OnuorahPlaying baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion. Votes: 0
Willie StargellTo change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated. Votes: 0
Geoffrey MadanAmerican public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. Votes: 0
Hubert H. HumphreyForce rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThere is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroOther people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it. Votes: 0
Kishore BansalAnd it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonThe only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly. Votes: 0
Julius RosenbergYou are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts. Votes: 0
Daniel Patrick MoynihanMy opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly. Votes: 0
Julius and Ethel RosenbergNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergIt is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it. Votes: 0
Jonathan DimblebyI'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg. Votes: 0
Dorothy Canfield FisherIt is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnI only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God. Votes: 0
Manny PacquiaoYour own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. Votes: 0
Charles Haddon SpurgeonThe most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself. Votes: 0
Marcel PagnolIt was five, but it could have been six, seven or eight goals, in my opinion. Votes: 0
Robin van PersieNever tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldWe are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachA man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneNo opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
William Carlos WilliamsVery often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.
John Mercer JohnsonTo be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
William Sloane CoffinOpinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
Alexander HamiltonThereâs a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
Leonard RavenhillIf you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.
Linda Bradford RaschkeThis so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
Alexis de TocquevilleIn my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
Catharine MacKinnonSo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Harriet Beecher StoweWhen I told my wife she was lousy in bed - she went out - she got a second opinion.
Rodney DangerfieldThe profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown to know no sex.
Sylvia PankhurstMen seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
Alexis de TocquevilleWe are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...
Maria Edgeworthpublic opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.
Sybille BedfordEveryone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.
Cyril ConnollyEven opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Michel de MontaigneAll becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
Napoleon BonaparteA great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.
Christian KeiberEditorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.
Gene WeingartenPressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.
Peter BenensonIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].
Stephanie McMahonMy opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William JonesThe difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre MauroisSometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.
David J. LiebermanIt is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
David SouterThere is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.
Franklin D. RooseveltSlavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Hinton Rowan HelperIf the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.
Nick VujicicIn the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
Ruhollah KhomeiniI have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Albert EinsteinUnder no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
David O. SelznickI think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
Dick CheneyOpinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Idries ShahIâm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldnât care less about their opinion.
Karl LagerfeldThere is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max EastmanIt may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
Paul DaviesIt is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
William PennSome praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander PopeIn my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
Barbara Taylor BradfordIf you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
Bobby KnightJust because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.
Geneen RothPhotography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
Heinrich HeineAphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
Isabel AllendeA man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
Jack MinerIt's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
James AltucherIn the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
John BrightIn my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.
Jon ForemanWhen the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
Mahatma GandhiThe opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
Marcus AureliusEntrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Reverend Malcolm BoydDiversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Oscar WildeEverybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.
Anne LamottIt doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.
Anthony AndersonIf something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.
Barbara BoxerI had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
Benjamin NetanyahuIf you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.
Eddie IzzardWe must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Edmund BurkeThe average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Elbert HubbardI'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.
Jason GrayThere are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too
Michael W. SmithIn my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
Roy HattersleyThe dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.
Rudolf HessBeware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.'
Criss JamiPublic opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Elbert Hubbard'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.
James TarantoIs a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
Mark TwainWe know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W.S. GilbertMost of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
Andy RooneyThe good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
Charles Caleb ColtonI haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen GlasgowThe opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George OrwellPublic opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
James MadisonReasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan SwiftHow very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
Letitia Elizabeth LandonFrom Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Michel de MontaigneNo man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Samuel JohnsonA government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
Thomas JeffersonEveryone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.
Ashley Grahaminstant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
Ellen GoodmanThe vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
Norm MacDonaldI have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
Raymond BarreIn my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
Sue GraftonA proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
William HazlittIn my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.
Bent LarsenTo be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelI trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.
Johnny DeppFaith is having a good opinion of God. That God is a good God. He is not a taker but a give!!!
Joseph PrinceRemember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
Marcus AureliusPublic opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
Mark TwainThe finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Michel de MontaigneAnd the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.
Oscar Zeta AcostaIn a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
Andre MauroisNo, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.
Angelina JolieWhat I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.
Ann CoulterI'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
Cate BlanchettHe who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockIf I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Gareth GatesI feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.
India.ArieOpponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evieâs opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
Libba BrayI retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.
Mahatma GandhiNo liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.
Nancy PelosiContrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor CaldwellEvery head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
Vladimir PutinToday's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure.
Osama bin LadenWe in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar WildeIn the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert MeltzerNo man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
Austin O'MalleySingularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin FranklinI think Iâm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.
Cassandra ClareWe now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.
David SuzukiMen are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
EpictetusI think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.
Gwen IfillIn reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.
India.ArieNot as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
Josh LanyonI have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.
Sir James Fergusson, 6th BaronetAppetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas HobbesThe reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
Arthur HelpsThe only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
Bill ParcellsThere is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
George OrwellEverybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Honore de BalzacI would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."
Iman ShumpertMy personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,
Kevin PowersIn Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Thomas B. MacaulayNo policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham LincolnAsked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
Bill JayYou can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.
Brian Michael BendisNothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Catherine the GreatCensorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
Dwight D. EisenhowerEvery man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOpinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
John SeldenThe feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame RolandThey are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafMy opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!
Robert WillnerNeeding approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
Wayne DyerOnce the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done.
Osama bin LadenIt is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
AristotleI do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
Catherine the GreatIn my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
Juana Inés de la CruzHe never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
JuvenalMy opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
Larry BirdEveryone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
MatisyahuYou have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?
NatalieWars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.
Charles Caleb ColtonOne must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude SteinI accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Harrison FordThe power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.
Howard ZinnIn my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.
J. Paul GettyNever accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.
Mary BlakelyThe measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.
SaadiThere is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.
Stephen CraneBut if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. Votes: 4 Paul Farmer
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. Votes: 3 Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. Votes: 4 John F. Kennedy
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. Votes: 1 Marilyn vos Savant
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent. Votes: 3 Jonathan Swift
I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion. Votes: 5 Naomi Wolf
There's so many differences of opinion in the papers. Votes: 1 Kevin Pietersen
There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences. Votes: 7 Lynne Cheney
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. Votes: 5 William Shatner
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded. Votes: 1 Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion. Votes: 3 Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Votes: 5 Hippocrates
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. Votes: 3 Honore de Balzac
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. Votes: 1 Horatio Nelson
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. Votes: 4 John Amery
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest. Votes: 3 Binyavanga Wainaina
Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report. Votes: 3 Katrina Kaif
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. Votes: 3 Neil Postman
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. Votes: 2 Preston Brooks
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. Votes: 4 Umberto Eco
My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them. Votes: 4 William Randolph Hearst
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... Votes: 3 Edgar Allan Poe
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? Votes: 2 Joan Baez
Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important. Votes: 3 Dwayne Johnson
For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions. Votes: 3 Bob Beauprez
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. Votes: 1 Ernestine Rose
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. Votes: 3 Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life. Votes: 4 Al Pacino
As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don't want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way. Votes: 1 Eli Manning
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. Votes: 3 Umberto Eco
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. Votes: 2 Marilyn vos Savant
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's? Votes: 3 Thomas Frank
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others. Votes: 4 Wayne Dyer
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition Votes: 4 Stanton T. Friedman
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Votes: 4 Booth Tarkington
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. Votes: 4 Tullian Tchividjian
I'm an easy target because of my political opinions. Votes: 4 Sean Connery
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Votes: 3 Jack Kerouac
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Votes: 4 Winston Churchill
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. Votes: 1 J. B. Priestley
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural. Votes: 3 Bertrand Russell
There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others. Votes: 1 Conrad Black
A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics. Votes: 3 Sergei Lavrov
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. Votes: 1 Adam Levine
If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it. Votes: 4 Linda Bradford Raschke
Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist. Votes: 4 Marina and the Diamonds
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. Votes: 1 Horatio Nelson
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. Votes: 3 Don Lemon
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. Votes: 2 Tim McGraw
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions. Votes: 4 Philip Sidney
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. Votes: 4 Sarah Jessica Parker
There are so many people who will try and make you feel like your opinion doesn't matter, and I've learned how important it is to use your voice. Votes: 3 Jurnee Smollett
The case is I talk for a living, so I should be able to say anything I want to say regardless of how you feel. What we're starting to deal with now is your opinion matters, but to be quite honest, your opinion means nothing. Votes: 3 Patrice O'Neal