Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Klopstock

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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

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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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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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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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

33.

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

Byron, Lord

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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 judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

George Bush

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

Pope, Alexander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Epictetus

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Brown, Les