Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Souter, David H.

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

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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 usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

30.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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