Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Twain, Mark

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

38.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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.