Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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 work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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 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