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

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

Mark Twain

What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Antonius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

12.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

13.

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

14.

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

Victoria, Queen

15.

We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

17.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Navon, Yitzhak

24.

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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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Duhamel, George

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

31.

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

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

40.

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

41.

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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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Phillips, Wendell