Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Opinions

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Souter, David H.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Saying, Zen

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Charles A. Dana

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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Klopstock

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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.