Motivational Quotes

Opinions

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

- Duhamel, George

Best Quotes about Opinions

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Churchill, Winston

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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

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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