Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Opinions

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Epictetus

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Saying, Zen

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Rogers, Will

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius