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

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

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Renan, Ernest

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

George Bush

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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

Rostand, Jean

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blake, William

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

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Phillips, Wendell

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna