Motivational Quotes

Opinions

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Basinger, Kim

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

You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Buckle, George Earle

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, 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 have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.