Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Charles A. Dana

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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.

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

Rogers, Will

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

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

Epictetus

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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