Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Victoria, Queen

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Souter, David H.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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