Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Epictetus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, 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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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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.

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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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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato