Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

- Charles A. Dana

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Twain, Mark

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Blake, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Epictetus

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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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