Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Public opinion is a second conscience.

- Alger, William R.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Blake, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

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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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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Renan, Ernest

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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 find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Mark Twain

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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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 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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg