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

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Brown, Les

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Klopstock

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

George Bush

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Byron, Lord

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.