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 work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Charles A. Dana

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Epictetus

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

George Bush

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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.