I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see not what they feel how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

In the old days... it was a basic cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

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

But if you're asking my opinion I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

You've got to ask! Asking is in my opinion the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments or some other kind of arrangement is quite frankly secondary in my opinion.

We are watching industries crumble Wall Street firms disappear unemployment spike and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's or Abraham Lincoln's?

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The good opinion of mankind like the lever of Archimedes with the given fulcrum moves the world.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.