Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Chapman, John Jay

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Platiere, Jeane

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Byron, Lord

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.