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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

George Bush

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

Blake, William

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