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

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

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mark Twain

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.