Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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 always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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.

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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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 public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Souter, David H.

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