Motivational Quotes

Opinions

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Pope, Alexander

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Souter, David H.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Byron, Lord

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Blake, William

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

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

Rogers, Will

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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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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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.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Victoria, Queen

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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