Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Gilbert, W. S.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

10.

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

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Schwab, Charles M.

18.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Mark Twain

20.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blake, William

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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

28.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Batcheller, Irving

30.

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

Brown, Les

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Saying, Zen

36.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

39.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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

42.

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

Rogers, Will

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Navon, Yitzhak