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

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mark Twain

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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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