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

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

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

Epictetus

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Turgenev, Ivan

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Souter, David H.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Klopstock

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

22.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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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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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.