Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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

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

Victoria, Queen

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Pope, Alexander

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

George Bush

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

Virginia Woolf

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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