Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Mark Twain

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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