Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saying, Zen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Souter, David H.

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

41.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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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