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

1.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

3.

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

4.

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

Twain, Mark

5.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

8.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

9.

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

Byron, Lord

10.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

14.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

16.

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

17.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Victoria, Queen

26.

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

Charles A. Dana

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Renan, Ernest

34.

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

Phillips, Wendell

35.

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

Batcheller, Irving

36.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

37.

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

Saying, Zen

38.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

39.

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

40.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Platiere, Jeane

44.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

46.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

Souter, David H.

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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

50.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg