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

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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.

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

George Bush

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Souter, David H.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Blake, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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