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

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

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

Mark Twain

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rostand, Jean

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Saying, Zen

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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 feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.