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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

George Bush

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

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

Blake, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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

Saying, Zen

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Byron, Lord

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark