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Frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Scott Adams

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Socrates

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Epictetus

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

Herbert Spencer

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.

Sallust

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

He that complies against his will is of the same opinion still.

Samuel Butler

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

Public opinion is a second conscience.

William R. Alger

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

Wendell Phillips

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

Edgar Watson Howe

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

James Madison

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Alexander Hamilton

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

Thomas Hobbes

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Bertrand Russell

They're both very capable guys. They're both very different. Ultimately, what it came down to, in my opinion, was what I thought was a better fit for our program.

Morgan Burke

People are generally very friendly and appreciative. And this race gives a lot back to the community. It's nice to be a part of what's an institution, in my opinion.

Scott Kerr

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

Benjamin Cardozo

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

Cicero

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

Bertrand Russell

I obviously shouldn't have left the scene, but the accusation of the aggravated battery, in my opinion, was inaccurate.

Thomas Clayton

Everybody had an opinion for or against ... With the school bond, people are much more ambivalent.

George Carter

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

William Lloyd Garrison

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

Michael Howard

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

Franklin P. Jones

Have a definite opinion.

William Safire

My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.

Michael Baden

The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

Don Rittner

The ongoing company is overcapitalized, in our opinion, and there should ultimately be capital to be released.

Tim Dawson

Nothing will ever change my opinion that an innocent man is in jail.

Michael Sherman

This is the court of public opinion -- the idea is to educate the folks in the House of Commons on what is happening.

Clive Stafford Smith

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

J. William Fulbright

He's used to being out in the open, free to do. It wasn't like going to high school. This is only my opinion, but you're put in a dorm and you're restricted; it was almost like being in a prison.

James Nichols

I will not believe that Jews are in control of the world. So I see that statement as a misguided opinion.

Nihad Awad

In his opinion there were things that weren't quite right.

Rick Diaz

This is one of those unfortunate things. Vandals take this opportunity to express their opinion.

Susan Walsh

In my opinion, he's playing better than anyone in the world right now.

Tim Henman

What he's going to do (in the WBC) is show a lot of people that he can compete at a very high level and elevate everyone's opinion of the baseball talent in China. When he's hitting well, he is a fun guy to watch.

Jim Lefebvre

Frankly, in my opinion, it would be impossible to find an unbiased jury in the United State of America.

Freda Black

At best, this appears to be a poorly constructed opinion poll of those that self-selected to complete a biased form to elicit a negative response.

Deborah Scott

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King

You have to have an environment where your opinion is OK. Green Bay is learning how to be diverse. We were a homogenous community 20, 30 years ago. We're going to stumble a little bit, but we have to be optimistic.

Darryl Buck

In my opinion it's determination and love of your fellow man.

Norma Stiglet

Despite the pullback from the 52-week high of $90, the valuation remains aggressive in our opinion.

Greg Vogel

In [her] opinion, the information she has been provided by the Afghan authorities about the establishment of the [checking unit] will allow 'remaining doubts' about the identity of the applicants to be resolved.

Peter Jacobson

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire

He is a terrific athlete, we all know that. He's one of the top 15 or 20 players in the league, in our opinion anyway, and he brings it every night.

Joe Maloof

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Voltaire

If they're not happy with this new bill, then they need to become a legal citizen in my opinion. That is, learn our history, learn our government, learn our language and constitution and the American creed.

Scott Russell

When you don?t play well and you still win, in my opinion that?s the sign of a good team.

Scot Wenzel

With every opinion, it is closing another chapter in the story.

Kevin Neely

I do have more than one opinion on things that need to be changed, but it would also depend on who else is running for council.

Randy White

This is not really a strategy document from the Pentagon about fighting the insurgency. The document is clearly targeted at American public opinion.

Christopher Gelpi

Nelson's numbers are getting stronger, but about a third of the voters still say they don't know enough about him to form an opinion.

Clay F. Richards

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

William S. Gilbert

I have a very strong opinion that brands get in trouble when they lose focus of who they are. And we're not going to let that happen.

Jill Lajdziak

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

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.

Franklin P. Jones

When I was 21, I just listened to him and didn't say much. Now he asks my opinion.

Drew Bledsoe

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Kerry Sutton

Our opinion is that it's a good broadcast and that it honors the troops.

Micah Johnson

He is, in our opinion, clearly a predator.

Thomas Williams

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If your theology feeds the killers and if millions of your members support the killers, even though they're a minority, you have, in my opinion, a terrorist organization.

Michael Graham

In my opinion, they didn't have anything. We felt it shouldn't have gone to trial in the first place.

Robert Harris

He was always such a gentleman that people couldn't help but respect his opinion.

Richard Nugent

Wireless, in my opinion, was not reliable; it could be interfered with by anything.

Tim Stewart

The kids really sold that vote, more than any adult, any administrator or any school board member who was there, in my opinion.

Sean Casey

The Supreme Court of Israel shall give the full appropriate weight to the norms of international law as developed and interpreted by the ICJ in its advisory opinion.

Aharon Barak

In my opinion, they needed one more year at Baraka to make it stick.

Monica Lemoine

They didn't want none of us to know. If we would have had knowledge about it prior to this, we would have voiced our opinion then.

Al Young

In my opinion, we won't be favourites and the likes of North-East, Ayrshire and Dumbartonshire are all likely to be vying for the trophy.

Paul Gibson

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

Cicero

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

It is not just all about money. It is about Joey Barton wants to go and where Manchester City want to go. If Manchester City had come back with the offer we had asked for, which in my opinion is below what Joey should be getting any way, then Joey would have signed the contract.

Willie Mckay

In my opinion, there's no one in the conference that's playing better. Any success that we've been able to have, he's the key reason for it.

Wayne Morgan

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am not a doctor but during the one hour and twenty minutes' discussion, he looked fine in my opinion.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

Multinationals are much more likely to have business interests in the United States, ... Even if what they might contemplate doing in Cuba does not fall foul of the Helms-Burton law, nevertheless, they are very sensitive to public opinion.

Gareth Jenkins

That is Sen. Graham's opinion.

Kevin Bishop

Mr. Lanier put up a pretty good presentation. In my personal opinion, Merck wasn't doing the right thing by marketing the drug the way they were.

Raul Hernandez

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

Hippocrates

I trust his opinion. It turned out well.

John Speraw

In my opinion, we're putting the cart before the horse.

Anne Sinclair

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

People are enormously disappointed because if there's one country that really expected to be going and has a high opinion of its own qualities, it's Holland.

Simon Kuper

In my opinion, boot camps are a viable option.

Anthony Schembri

There has been a slight shift of opinion toward there being international links.

Charles Clarke

My opinion is that we need a decisive, straight-forward leader of the town who moves the business of the public always as quickly as it could be done.

Charles Meador

Right now, they are still continuing to figure things out on their own. That is, in my opinion, just doing a better job of getting out of ourselves, and focusing more on our opponents.

Buffy Baker

We follow the state law. We uphold that law… Of course, the city of Puyallup has another opinion.

Apostle

My opinion is that it's only something that will create animosity between students and Public Safety.

Alex Lenahan

In my opinion, the patents are worthless, IT managers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of patents. They can safely ignore them.

Vernon Keenan

Frankly, in my opinion, it would be impossible to find unbiased jurors in the whole United States of America. I would have handled it differently.

Freda Black

We have to look at how shall we regulate the so-called political market. Should it be very free, or moderately free, or somehow restricted? It's my opinion it's too restricted nowadays.

Gothom Arya

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

Roberto Rossellini

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

Marcel Pagnol

All of us have voiced the opinion that there's going to be a crash here. Somebody's going to be killed. And yesterday, that happened.

Gregory Reynolds

Today the market caught the double-dip disease. Recent economic data, like yesterday's [Tuesday's] consumer confidence number, seems to corroborate opinion about deceleration in growth.

Ned Riley

In my opinion it was a tie vote in Singapore. We need an outcome.

Anita Defrantz

It is our current assessment that the gaming commission, as well as public opinion, will more than likely favor those gaming applicants possessing the greater magnitude of scope in their proposal.

Merrill Stabile

In my opinion, he's the only one in this franchise who should have a retired number.

Larry Dierker

Talk shows and public opinion are standing off this giant coalition.

Roy Beck

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.

Charles Evans Hughes

In fact, that's one of the reasons that the team, most likely, was let go last June, is that we had differences of opinion on that.

Gretchen Wehmhoff

In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea.

Lindley Karstens

That is Shane Warne's opinion only. You can't say 'cheap wickets'. He hasn't done well in India. I've done very well in India.

Muttiah Muralitharan

Everybody's got their own opinion, ... I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to correct my running style or nothing like that. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing.

Willis Mcgahee

I know that this issue has already generated (letters to the editor) that in my opinion are unnecessary.

Mark Fraser

I've said it all year, this is in my opinion the best team in the [National League] East, for sure.

Paul Quantrill

In my opinion, we are the most elite team in the south suburbs. Every high school team has an off night.

Julian Scott

Riding judge is a matter of opinion. It's like gymnastics. In gymnastics, a girl can't get a 6.0 if the difficulty of all your tricks only add up to 3.0.

Rocky Steagall

It's sad. We had no idea those were his views. He's entitled to his opinion but he's not the right person for the chaplain.

Kevin James

There was no discussion about health insurance and health care costs, which in my opinion is the number one economic development issue in place in this state.

Sen Vi Simpson

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Joachim Du Bellay

Everybody has an opinion, ... And I respected his.

Frank Conley

In my opinion, this gives Icelanders all the benefits ensuing from it, but they have no costs connected with EU membership.

Vaclav Klaus

Everybody has an opportunity to express their opinion.

Richard Mann

That's my opinion, that his death was preventable. Absolutely. Because he had a pathology which is treated at any place in the world at the moment.

Leo Bokeria

Is it your opinion Dr. Reichardt that Nicole Brown deserved to have had her throat cut?

Christopher Darden

The bottom line is that the 'ghost' biological opinion involves a plan that is much more in line with the science than the draft biological plan that is out on the streets.

Rob Masonis

The prospect of no election is to me, in my humble opinion a national disaster waiting to happen, but which can be prevented or remedied by congressional action.

Fidel Ramos

He had an opinion about everything. He would always have to add something, like he was expert. ... He liked to be in the limelight.

Pamela Dixon

The district is in a situation now were after having closed several schools where we can't offer any more money than we have already. However, we do feel that employees have a right to express their opinion in front of the board.

Lorna Ho

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

Lord Palmerston

There are a handful of citizens who want to delay the decision until Mr. George comes back. But that would mean we won't be able to apply for Issue 2 money for Taylor Road in 2006 and, in my opinion, would delay the project by another 18 to 25 months.

Gary Burkholder

We have met again today with Blue Cross. We are making progress, in our opinion.

Jeff Siegel

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

Democritus

I'm not of the opinion that Lincoln Chafee is the only Republican that can win that seat.

Pat Toomey

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Kevin Merkle

It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Paul Goodman

If you're elected on the State Board of Education to deal with education issues, then you should boldly stand up and have an opinion on the most pressing issue associated with education today.

Bob Schaffer

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

William Gilmore Simms

Support of substantial people whose opinion matters.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I would have expected a much more inclusive process. If they are relying on inviting companies to participate in the process, how much diversity of opinion are they likely to achieve?

Michael Goulde

About eight to 10 years ago they got a bad rap, and in my opinion deservedly so.

Joel Bernstein

I don't have a very high opinion of men, without doubt it is because I am one. Men and women live on two planets. I find it even bizarre that we can coexist.

Danis Tanovic

Their opinion can truly shape what the rest of the audience thinks of you.

Wayne Coyne

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Jeremy Collier

The HFEA is genuinely interested to see public opinion and we don't know what the results of the consultation will be.

Suzi Leather

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

It will be a win-win, in my opinion, because we get the open space [and] because we get the farmers to stay farming.

Christy Clagett

I will ask Mr. Gates to change his opinion about what is allowed to be around Windows and what is not.

Hasso Plattner

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

It's not been about consensus-building or about solving problems by hearing everyone's opinion. It's more about getting the right head-count. It is very difficult being in the minority.

Nanette Harrington

Fox didn't meet all the expectations that were inordinately inflated by his team, by him, and by opinion makers.

Federico Estevez

In our opinion they have been making very good progress. Most have ended up in the general area.

Patrick Flood

There were four outstanding applicants and we interviewed the four of those and we've ... got an opinion on where we want to go and now we're in negotiations with two of those four to ... see where they fit with us and we hope to get some answers available to the public by Wednesday.

David Carmichael

Everyone had a different opinion. I found the whole thing very confusing.

Michele Morson

For me, James has become much more than an artist doing a piece. He's the kind of guy who when you hire him to do an artistic piece like that wall system, you do it together, but then he's hanging around the office, so you ask his opinion on everything.

David Childs

The best way we can support our troops is to keep them out of Kosovo, out of a protracted war that, in my opinion, we are not going to end up winning.

James Inhofe

The parliamentary board considered her reply today and was of the opinion that her actions amounted to both acts of indiscipline and anti-party activities.

Arun Jaitley

That was normal public opinion, ... He was not abnormal.

Bruce Tyler

I'm not saying they're innocent or guilty, because I don't know. But many of us have formed an opinion of guilt. That's not in our best interest because it's them today and you tomorrow.

Joyce Foreman

I think a coach ought to be able to give his opinion and coach his team. I didn't see anything myself that should have gotten (Byrd) ejected from the game.

Thomas Billups

Everyone's certainly entitled to that opinion, but I actually am British.

Antony Hegarty

Nothing more than his personal opinion.

Toni Atkins

They are of the opinion that if they speak it will just keep [the issue] alive longer.

Greg O'connor

Always respect another's opinion and another's point of view.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The amount that they offered us was between three and five million euros [£2m-3.5m]. I can't mention what we wanted, but there was no way we could make a deal. City know our opinion so if they want to make a move, they know what they have to do.

Henk Hoekstra

Public opinion on Iraq is overwhelmingly driven by events on the ground.

Whit Ayres

At this point I don't have an opinion on whether anything they claim is valid.

Steve Brannan

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

Vint Cerf

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

Lazarus Long

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

Taylor Caldwell

There's no reason in my opinion not to give bigger doses. The harm is minimal if anything, and the benefit is potentially more.

David Metz

He is entitled to his opinion. We can only say that we have no concrete evidence that an attack is planned.

Christian Sachs

Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin

Everyone has their own opinion about what this country is doing. Personally, I wish we hadn't gone to Iraq.

Peter Sarsgaard

I have to look at what you might do to another person, ... I'm of the opinion you can't control your behavior. I have to do it for you.

Michael Gibbons

We're reviewing our legal position in light of the 2nd District Court of Appeal's opinion. Even if we decide not to appeal further, we're prepared to go to court to defend our actions.

Sterling Ivey

The judge basically was of the opinion that things were moving pretty quickly with respect to the postal facilities in New Jersey and wanted to have command of the facts.

Nancy Walker

When lawyers for different government entities disagree, that's the appropriate measure to take. When the opinion is issued, we'll be happy to comply with it.

Deb Kottel

Public opinion will be focused on the protests against Bush.

Ricardo Israel

In my opinion, AK Steel will be partnered with somebody in the industry in the not-too-distant future.

Michael Locker

Detective Coffey expressed the opinion on the night of the murder, 'Blake's full of shit,'.

Gerald Schwartzbach

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

Fred Jordan

Obviously, Buck's opinion is going to be heard, ... I think that's the case with all managers or at least it should be. But there will be a lot of people involved in all the decisions we make.

Jon Daniels

In my opinion, the public needs to have a lot more input. I don't think the (current) city commission has a good pulse on the majority of opinions.

Jeff Rawls

Well, it was more satisfying and of course it was more challenging, but it was a sweet ending. So everything went beautiful in my opinion.

Tonia Young

A lot of what you heard today was a complaint about the opinion itself--the fact that people would be so dastardly as to complain about tax increases.

Sen. Kenneth Cuccinelli

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My personal opinion is that, to build a bomb that big, to do that type of devastation, that you'd actually want to watch it.

Danny Defenbaugh

But I have no opinion.

Jim Willett

In my opinion, you either realize that exercise is really good for you and you make it a No. 1 priority, or you don't.

Cris Slentz

In my opinion, I don't think we can do anything about this primary.

Chuck Winfree

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson