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

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

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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Victoria, Queen

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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

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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pope, Alexander