Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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

Renan, Ernest

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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

Brown, Les

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.