Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Blake, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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