Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Public opinion is a second conscience.

- Alger, William R.

Best Quotes about Opinions

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Blake, William

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mark Twain

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

44.

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

Victoria, Queen

45.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

48.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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