Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Brown, Les

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Batcheller, Irving

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Mark Twain

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Byron, Lord

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

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

Blake, William

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Mark Twain

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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