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

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Basinger, Kim

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.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

Chapman, John Jay

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel