Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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 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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Mark Twain

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

George Bush

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Batcheller, Irving

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