The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Henry L. Stimson

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Epictetus

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

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
William Faulkner

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

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Louisa May Alcott

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.
Reese Witherspoon

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Thomas Beecham

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin Disraeli