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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

George Bush

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

Mark Twain

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

13.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

15.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

21.

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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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