Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

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

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

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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

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

Antonius, Marcus

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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