Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Buckle, George Earle

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Antonius, Marcus

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.

Chuang Tzu

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

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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

Virginia Woolf

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.