Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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

In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

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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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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Butler, Samuel

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

Peter, Laurence 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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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Gilbert, W. S.

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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Byron, Lord

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Twain, Mark

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

Brown, Les

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

Saying, Zen

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

Souter, David H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.