Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schwab, Charles M.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mark Twain

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Buckle, George Earle

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Brown, Les

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Churchill, Winston