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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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.

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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 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

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Epictetus

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Les

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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'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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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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