Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Opinions

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

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

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Souter, David H.

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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Charles A. Dana

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

Rostand, Jean

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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

Blake, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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