Motivational Quotes

Opinions

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Best Quotes about Opinions

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Byron, Lord

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Blake, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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

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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.