Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opinions

1.

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

2.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

5.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

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

15.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

16.

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

17.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

18.

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

Batcheller, Irving

19.

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

20.

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

Saying, Zen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Antonius, Marcus

25.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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 modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

30.

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

Russell, Bertrand

31.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

32.

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

33.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

34.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

35.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

36.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

37.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

38.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

39.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

40.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

41.

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

Klopstock

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

44.

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

Chapman, John Jay

45.

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.

46.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

47.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

48.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

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