Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Blake, William

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Saying, Zen

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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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

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.