Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Senator Patrick Leahy

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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 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

10.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Epictetus

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mark Twain

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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.

38.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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