Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Platiere, Jeane

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

33.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.