Motivational Quotes

Opinions

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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.

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

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Souter, David H.

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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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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

41.

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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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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Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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