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 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.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Souter, David H.

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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

George Bush

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.