Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Brown, Les

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Blake, William

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Souter, David H.

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Mark Twain

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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Saying, Zen

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark