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

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

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Navon, Yitzhak

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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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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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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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

George Bush

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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...