Motivational Quotes

Opinions

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

- Griffith-Joyner, Florence

Best Quotes about Opinions

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Klopstock

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Blake, William

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Brown, Les

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.