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

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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 worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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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 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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Souter, David H.

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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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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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

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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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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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