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Thomas Hobbes

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

Ruben Studdard

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

Jean de La Fontaine

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.

W. S. Gilbert

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

Danish proverb

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 547.

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

Arnold Glasgow

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Rune Leknes

Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Sophocles

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Edmund Burke

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

George Washington

Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary.

Anatole France

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Eustace Budgell

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Melvin Fitting

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

La Rochefoucauld

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Ralph Carl Eichelberger

Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are.

Mark Twain

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Hippocrates

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

Geoffrey F. Albert

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Mark Twain

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

Andr Maurois

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

Louisa May Alcott

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Chinese Proverb

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

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.

Bethania McKenstry

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Franklin P. 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.

La Rochefoucauld

We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.

Mark Twain

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson

George John Whyte-Melville

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

Frank Gelett Burgess

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

JOHN TRUMBULL: _McFingal,_ Canto iii., Line 489.

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

Daisy Bates

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

E. M. Forster

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me.

Jeanne-Marie Roland

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Horace Mann

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

E. M. Forster

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.

BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 624.

With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

George Orwell

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; It shall be said,--his judgment rul'd our hands.

James Fenimore Cooper

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn???t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

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

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

It's only my opinion, but it's better than yours.

If you don't like my opinion of you - improve yourself!

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Fact is solidified opinion

"I need a second opinion on this." "Who gave you the first opinion?"

If I wanted your opinion I'd ask your computer

I will defend to your death my right to my opinion.

Networking: Now everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Knowledge is true opinion.

If I want your stupid opinion, I'll beat it out of you.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

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

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

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

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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

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

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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

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

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

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

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.