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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Basinger, Kim

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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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

32.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rostand, Jean

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