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.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

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.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Klopstock

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Epictetus

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

Churchill, Winston

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Batcheller, Irving