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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Renan, Ernest

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Tarkington, Booth

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brown, Les

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

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

Mark Twain

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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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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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

Rostand, Jean

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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