Motivational Quotes

Opinions

What you think of me is none of my business.

- Cole-Whittaker, Terry

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saying, Zen

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mark Twain

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

32.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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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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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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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

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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