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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mark Twain

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

Edwards, Tryon

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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.

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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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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Souter, David H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius