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

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

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.

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

George Bush

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Virginia Woolf

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

12.

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

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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mark Twain

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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

26.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

33.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rostand, Jean

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

43.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg