Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Opinions

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo