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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Souter, David H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Byron, Lord

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

George Bush

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

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Benjamin, Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George