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

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Blake, William

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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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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Mark Twain

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Zen

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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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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.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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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