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

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

George Bush

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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

Batcheller, Irving

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Elbert Hubbard

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

10.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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

16.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

25.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

27.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mark Twain

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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