Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

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

Souter, David H.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

George Bush

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

Churchill, Winston

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

Rostand, Jean

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chapman, John Jay

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

32.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Pope, Alexander

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Byron, Lord

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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