Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chapman, John Jay

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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 are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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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

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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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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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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Blake, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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