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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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