Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Saying, Zen

Best Quotes about Opinions

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Pope, Alexander

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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