People often hold a particular belief or state an opinion because of what it signals to others in that moment not because it will be accurate in the long run. Belonging, acceptance, and praise from...

I don’t represent anyone’s opinion. Not even my own. I’m neutral.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings – whether it’s views or the things you’re doing in your life, your relationships – and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it “fall in love”. Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

I believe that sexual offenders and predators should be released…as long as it is mandatory they get to move into the house next door to the judge that released them.

It’s one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you’ve done or didn’t do in your relationship – and it’s just all crap, really. Things that are written...

c’est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu’il n’est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probablespartie 3, para 3)

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste… [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems...

The 1990 ‘Goodwill Games’ can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts… they will have a higher opinion of cable...

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Those market researchers… are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother’s big toe was when it came...

’30 Rock’ is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not, there is only one really important argument, and that, for some reason or...

When I want an opinion, I’ll get it from my peers – from men of vision, like our great railroad builders… Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore… fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you’re dealing with.

God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.

The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this...

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

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire...

…the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people...

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an...

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment...

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different...

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what’s being said is the party line.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but at your death I’ll defend what you rightfully should have said.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

If you’re not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone’s behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of...

I call my it “the Book of Paula” or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

I will never let someone else’s opinion define my reality.

In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi … To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I...

Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy....

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

It wouldn’t necessarily be tongue in cheek if a woman told me I kiss like a toothbrush. And I do. In fact, 9 out of 10 dentists recommend kissing me right before bed. Oh, and...

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?