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

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

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'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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Byron, Lord

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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