Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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

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

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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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 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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rostand, Jean

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elbert Hubbard

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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