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 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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Buckle, George Earle

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

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

Mark Twain

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Batcheller, Irving

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius