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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

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

Blake, William

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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Arendt, Hannah

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

Mark Twain

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Basinger, Kim