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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Blake, William

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

Epictetus

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Buckle, George Earle

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Twain, Mark

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mark Twain

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

16.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Platiere, Jeane

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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

30.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Souter, David H.

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

45.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Navon, Yitzhak

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

49.

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

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

Twain, Mark