Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Batcheller, Irving

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pope, Alexander

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand

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

Souter, David H.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Rogers, Will