Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Twain, Mark

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Platiere, Jeane

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

Blake, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Byron, Lord

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

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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 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.

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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

Mark Twain

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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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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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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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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 recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.