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

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Brown, Les

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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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 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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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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Mark Twain

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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