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

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

Saying, Zen

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Renan, Ernest

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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, 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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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

Brown, Les

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

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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

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

41.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will