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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Byron, Lord

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.