Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Rogers, Will

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Brown, Les

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Souter, David H.

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Rogers, Will

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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.