Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Renan, Ernest

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Souter, David H.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna