Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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.

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

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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.

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Byron, Lord

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Arendt, Hannah

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Mark Twain

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

George Bush

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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