Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Mark Twain

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Victoria, Queen

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.