Motivational Quotes

Opinions

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Batcheller, Irving

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

Rogers, Will

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.