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

1.

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

2.

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

Byron, Lord

3.

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

Elbert Hubbard

4.

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

Victoria, Queen

5.

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

Mark Twain

6.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

7.

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

8.

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

9.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

10.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Platiere, Jeane

13.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

14.

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

15.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

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

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Souter, David H.

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

29.

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

30.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

35.

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.

36.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

George Bush

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

42.

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

43.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

44.

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

Renan, Ernest

45.

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

Phillips, Wendell

46.

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