Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Navon, Yitzhak

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

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Saying, Zen

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

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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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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