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

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

Churchill, Winston

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Klopstock

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Byron, Lord

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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.

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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