Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Saying, Zen

39.

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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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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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

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