Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Blake, William

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

18.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

24.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

George Bush

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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

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