Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Souter, David H.

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

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Basinger, Kim

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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