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

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

Souter, David H.

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Epictetus

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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 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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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.

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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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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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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Virginia Woolf

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.