Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Renan, Ernest

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Saying, Zen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Will

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Mark Twain

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

Blake, William

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel