Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Antonius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Opinions

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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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

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

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

31.

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

Renan, Ernest

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Twain, Mark

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mark Twain

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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.

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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.

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

Rogers, Will