Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Victoria, Queen

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Charles A. Dana

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bush

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rogers, Will

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mark Twain

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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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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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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