Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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