Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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 have vested interests just as men have.