Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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

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

Byron, Lord

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Platiere, Jeane

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