Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Byron, Lord

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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 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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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 try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Twain, Mark