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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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.

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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Mark Twain

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Blake, William

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry