Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Virginia Woolf

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

George Bush

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

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

26.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Brown, Les

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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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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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

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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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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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

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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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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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg