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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Batcheller, Irving

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

George Bush

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mark Twain

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

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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