Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

He who hates vice hates men.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.

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

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

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

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.