Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Best Quotes about Opinions

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Souter, David H.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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

Epictetus

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

25.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Byron, Lord

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

Renan, Ernest

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell