Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Basinger, Kim

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Chapman, John Jay

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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

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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

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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 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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Saying, Zen

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Souter, David H.

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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