Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Opinions

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Saying, Zen

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.