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

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Souter, David H.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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Mark Twain

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Saying, Zen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Blake, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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