Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

Rogers, Will

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

Rogers, Will

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Blake, William

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

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Edwards, Tryon

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Klopstock

10.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Senator Patrick Leahy

19.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Buffett, Warren

20.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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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 takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

25.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

26.

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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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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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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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

30.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

31.

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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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

34.

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Basinger, Kim

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

38.

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

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

41.

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

Navon, Yitzhak

42.

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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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

44.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Saying, Zen

46.

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

47.

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

Souter, David H.

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

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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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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