Motivational Quotes

Opinions

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.

Best Quotes about Opinions

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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.

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

George Bush

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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Batcheller, Irving

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

Renan, Ernest

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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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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

Keats, John

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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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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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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Platiere, Jeane

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

Basinger, Kim

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Turgenev, Ivan

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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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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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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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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 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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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana