Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Batcheller, Irving

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Mark Twain

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Saying, Zen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Platiere, Jeane

12.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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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.

14.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Brown, Les

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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.

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Blake, William

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