Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Souter, David H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Byron, Lord

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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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 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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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