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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Blake, William

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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De