Motivational Quotes

Opinions

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

- Duhamel, George

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Blake, William

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Saying, Zen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.