Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Renan, Ernest

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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