Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Klopstock

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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.

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

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

Renan, Ernest

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Epictetus

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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