Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Twain, Mark

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Antonius, Marcus

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Brown, Les

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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