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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Chapman, John Jay

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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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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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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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.