Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Saying, Zen

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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

George Bush

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Byron, Lord

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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