Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epictetus

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

Twain, Mark

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock