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

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

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mark Twain

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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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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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Mark Twain

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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