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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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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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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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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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

Saying, Zen

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, 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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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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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 moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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