Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Klopstock

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Twain, Mark

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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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

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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, 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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Buckle, George Earle

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thatcher, Margaret