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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

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

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Brown, Les

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

George Bush

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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 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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Lebowitz, Fran