Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- George Bush

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

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

10.

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

Victoria, Queen

11.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buckle, George Earle

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

19.

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

Renan, Ernest

20.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

21.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

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

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

32.

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

33.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

34.

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

35.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

George Bush

38.

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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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 a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Souter, David H.

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