Motivational Quotes

Opinions

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Mark Twain

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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.

10.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

41.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Mcluhan, Marshall