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

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

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

Mark Twain

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Byron, Lord

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

Virginia Woolf

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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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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

George Bush

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

Blake, William

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

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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 much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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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