Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Klopstock

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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 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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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 get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Basinger, Kim

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

George Bush

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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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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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

41.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston