Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Blake, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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