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Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

John Milton

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

George Bush

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

Walter Lippmann

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

John Swinton

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Danish proverb

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

John Locke

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Lawana Blackwell

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them

La Rochefoucauld

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

Herbert V. Prochnow

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Hebrew Proverb

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Edward Gibbon

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Virginia Woolf

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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.

Elbert Hubbard

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Virginia

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Jonathan Swift

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.

John Stuart Mill

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Bob Wells

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.

Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Mort Crim

It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

John Ervine

Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

Edgar Watson Howe

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Molly Ringwald

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Quintus Fabius Maximus

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Marcel Proust

The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.

Unknown

Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1.

'T is strange how some men's tempers suit, Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, That for their own opinions stand fast, Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd.

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes i

Katherine Mansfield

Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Barbara Hall

They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.

W.T. Brande

Derived from this celebrated society [for propagating the faith], the name propaganda is applied in modern political language as a term of reproach to secret associations for the spread of opinions and principles which are viewed by most governments with

Victor Hugo

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Henrik Ibsen

What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Disclaimer: All opinions are not really opinions.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Opinions expressed are not my own & I'm not responsible for them.

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

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

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

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

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.

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

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

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

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

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.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

"How long halt ye between two opinions.?" -- 1 Kings 18:21

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.