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

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

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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

10.

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

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

12.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

13.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Elbert Hubbard

15.

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

Phillips, Wendell

16.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

21.

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

22.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Charles A. Dana

27.

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

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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.

30.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

31.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

32.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

33.

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

34.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

35.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

36.

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

George Bush

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

40.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Saying, Zen

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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

45.

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.

46.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

47.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

48.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace