Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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