Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Saying, Zen

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Platiere, Jeane

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Victoria, Queen

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Souter, David H.

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

Epictetus

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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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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, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thatcher, Margaret