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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Elbert Hubbard

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Blake, William

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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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 who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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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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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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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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

Epictetus

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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.