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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Benjamin, Walter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Blake, William

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Les

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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