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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rostand, Jean

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

George Bush

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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