Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mark Twain

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

George Bush

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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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.