Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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.

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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

Virginia Woolf

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?