He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
KLOPSTOCK I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different tha...
THOMAS PAINE See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
JEREMY COLLIER A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an o...
SOURCE UNKNOWN A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an...
SOURCE UNKNOWN A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an o...
A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure tha...
ANUJ SOMANY A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the ot...
MARCEL PROUST Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 True it is that every man willingly f...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN He was very upset. He voiced his opinion and that is just the way it goes. He has passion for the ga...
CHANNING FRYE The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
SIR HENRY TAYLOR Everybody has an opinion, ... And I respected his.
FRANK CONLEY Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
BERNARD M. BARUCH Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opin...
BRIAN COX A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things do...
G. K. CHESTERTON Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because h...
JILL SCOTT In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks...
KATHERINE HOWE A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
CHINESE PROVERB A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
GRANTLAND RICE The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
MARCEL PAGNOL A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
CHINESE PROVERBS Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights ...
HASSAN NASRALLAH He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion....
UNKNOWN My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
THOMAS HARDY Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
JOSEPH HALL Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi...
VOLTAIRE It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi...
VOLTAIRE I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could hav...
FRED JORDAN We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
PATRICK MOYNIHAN Frankly, Im suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
SCOTT ADAMS The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a defer...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
AMIT KALANTRI He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGGON He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own
ELIAS LYMAN MAGGON But my dear young lady," he said offering a cigarette, "who ever said I have a poor opinion of women...
FRANK O'CONNOR Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was a...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or to...
WILLIAM HAZLITT While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
BILL DIXON He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
CONFUCIUS He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
CONFUCIUS Jameson is a literature professor but his teaching is based on an uninformed opinion. All he's done ...
DAVID HOROWITZ I believe people have already formed an opinion. That opinion is based on the reporting and that opi...
ELLIOT WEINSTEIN The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or...
JOHN RUSKIN A belief is an opinion, a religion is a belief, and an opinion is a right.
YAHYA MOHAMUD A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Of all the Presidents I've served or observed, George W. Bush is the least receptive to the opinion ...
GEORGE HARLEIGH I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.
PETER STEELE In my opinion, he who invalidates is himself invalid.
MOSHE KAHLON The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his power...
JOHN RUSKIN in the court of public opinion that he, and not Neil Bush, is the father of his son.
ROBERT ANDREWS The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.
CHARLES E. MERRILL Everyone has an opinion.
PAUL WALKER And he'll give his overall opinion on the state of the team.
DOUG RISEBROUGH Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that n...
ZELDA LA GRANGE None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Everybody has the right to have their own opinion,
DANIEL ALFREDSSON Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
THOMAS HOBBES In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he ...
FRANKLIN GRAHAM A fact can never be an opinion but an opinion can at times be a fact.
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) (Gore) can clearly disagree, but the president has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretaps ...
FREDERICK JONES \[Gore\] can clearly disagree, but the President has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretap...
FREDERICK JONES Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth i...
G. W. F. HEGEL Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
BLAISE PASCAL It's hard to believe he relied on what others told him. It's clear he is a decisive person who kept ...
DENNIS HERLONG Opinions are a useless currency
AMY NEFTZGER Everyone has an opinion and today the Internet allows everyone to express that opinion and it become...
MICHAEL MILKEN Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
HELEN KELLER There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king...
HELEN KELLER What is my opinion of his performance?
TOMMY LASORDA The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY He is a tremendous leader to this team and his work ethic is outstanding. He is real outgoing and al...
ROBERT FISHER