Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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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 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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rostand, Jean

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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