Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Renan, Ernest

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.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mark Twain

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Souter, David H.

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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.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall