Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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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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 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