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

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

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

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mark Twain

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

Saying, Zen

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.