Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Epictetus

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Basinger, Kim

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

19.

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

Saying, Zen

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Mark Twain

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Renan, Ernest

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

Victoria, Queen

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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 not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Blake, William