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

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

Rostand, Jean

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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

Saying, Zen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Griffith-Joyner, Florence

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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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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Mill, John Stuart

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

George Bush

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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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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

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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Needham, Richard J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.