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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Blake, William

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virginia Woolf

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Souter, David H.

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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 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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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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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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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.