Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Souter, David H.

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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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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 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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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