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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mark Twain

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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

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

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

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

Epictetus

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

Brown, Les

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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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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Byron, Lord

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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