Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Charles A. Dana

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Elbert Hubbard