Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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

- Navon, Yitzhak

Best Quotes about Opinions

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

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

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

George Bush

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

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saying, Zen

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A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Renan, Ernest

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

Mark Twain

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

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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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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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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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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

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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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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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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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo