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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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

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

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.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Brown, Les

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bush

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Souter, David H.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain