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

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Renan, Ernest

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Mark Twain

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

Saying, Zen

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

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Will

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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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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo