Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Rogers, Will

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Souter, David H.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Brown, Les

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Charles A. Dana

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Epictetus

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Klopstock

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