Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Pope, Alexander

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

Rogers, Will

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

31.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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