Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pope, Alexander

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Souter, David H.

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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 foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Saying, Zen

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Brown, Les

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

Mark Twain

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Mark Twain

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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