Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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 opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Gilbert, W. S.

25.

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Mark Twain

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

Buckle, George Earle

33.

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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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.