Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Rogers, Will

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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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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Brown, Les

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Saying, Zen

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

Churchill, Winston

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Batcheller, Irving

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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