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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

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

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

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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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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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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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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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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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 try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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 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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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De