opinions

1.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

- Plato

2.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

- Twain, Mark

3.

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

- Frederick William Robertson

4.

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

5.

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

- Monica Fairview

6.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

- Crowley, Aleister

7.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

- Chapman, John Jay

8.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

- Peter, Laurence J.

9.

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

- Platiere, Jeane

10.

FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

- Ambrose Bierce

11.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

12.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

- Sir W. Temple

13.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.

- Billings, Josh

14.

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

- John Locke

15.

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

- Havel, Vaclav

16.

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

17.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

- Ruskin, John

18.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

- Madonna

19.

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

- Edmond de Goncourt

20.

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

- Epictetus